PETER ALLEN ANDERSON v. SEMINOLE COUNTY, FLORIDA

How courts have described this case

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• holding that foreign state’s initiation of eviction action in United States did not impliedly waive jurisdictional immunity with respect to unrelated counterclaims
• observing that waiver of foreign sovereign immunity will usually be implied only where state’s intent to waive is unambiguous
• stating that “[w]e analyze the applicability of the counterclaim exception to each of the claims separately”
• suggesting that implied waiver “requires that the plaintiff demonstrate proof of subjective intent to waive 10 immunity”
• holding intentional infliction of emotional distress claim predicated on the foreign sovereign’s misrepresentation regarding the location of plaintiff’s missing husband fell within exclusion
• declining to find waiver where defendant had “taken no action that can be understood to demonstrate either an objective or a subjective intent to waive immunity with respect to [plaintiffs’] claims”

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