Robert Scott Bauer and Angela Bauer v. Penn Investment Funds, LLC Joe Penn and Gene Hamm and the Hamm Law Firm, P.C.

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• explaining that “a consequence is immediate if no intervening act breaks the chain of causation leading from the asserted wrongful act to its impact in the United States” (citation omitted)
• finding that the district court’s transfer to an out-of-circuit district court did not strip the court of jurisdiction over an immediately appealable decision of a district court within its circuit.
• setting forth burden- shifting framework of the FSIA when a defendant makes a factual jurisdictional challenge
• setting forth burden-shifting framework of the FISA and explaining that in facial jurisdictional challenges a presumption of truthfulness attaches to allegations in the complaint
• applying Iqbal 21 standard to challenge for lack of Article III standing under Rule 12(b)(1)
• analogizing sovereign immunity to foreign immunity in affirming dismissal 3 on jurisdictional grounds

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