Ricardo Martinez Pineda v. State

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• concluding that claims were not based on commercial activity when there was merely a connection between noncommercial torts and commercial conduct, “such as the hiring of a public relations firm”
• explaining that “[t]he FSIA is the sole basis for obtaining jurisdiction over a foreign state in a civil action,” and explaining the requirements for obtaining FSIA jurisdiction (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• applying discretionary function exclusion to Qatar’s alleged hacking of computer servers to steal and leak confidential information to the media
• “complaint also alleged 9 a cause of action for “civil conspiracy,” but as the district court correctly noted, there is 10 no such cause of action under California law”
• “[T]he policy discretion of a foreign sovereign is not evaluated by those same constraints [of U.S. law], but rather by the corresponding limitations that bind that sovereign, whether contained in its own domestic law or (we will assume

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