Peterson, John W. v. Royal Kingdom Arabia

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• declining to settle the question of the effect of the “tangible/intangible distinction [on] subject matter jurisdiction under FSIA’s expropriation exception”
• “Saudi Arabia ‘represented’ to non-Saudi employees that it would refund [their retirement] contributions ‘wherever the workers lived.’ ”
• “Saudi Arabia 14 ‘represented’ to non-Saudi employees that it would refund [their retirement] contributions ‘wherever the workers lived.’”
• Saudi Arabia had no obligation to pay retirement funds to former employee in the United States
• “[W]e have not decided the question and need not do so today.”
• no direct effect because \Saudi Arabia 'might well have paid' [the plaintiff] in the United States 'but it might just as well have done so' outside of the United States\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).