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· 9/27/2023

State of New Hampshire v. Cody M. Frye

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  • holding that the fourth element “must ... be resolved in the plaintiffs favor before the suit can proceed”
  • concluding, without separate discussion of jurisdiction over Russia, that district court had jurisdiction over Russia because two of its instrumentalities held expropriated property and were engaged in a commercial activity in the United States
  • characterizing the first three elements as jurisdictional and suggesting that they may be satisfied by the plaintiffs allegations so long as not “wholly insubstantial and frivolous”
  • entering into contracts for the purpose of publishing and selling reproductions of historical documents and other materials in the United States deemed 5 commercial activity under the FSIA
  • suggesting, but not deciding, that § 1605(a)(3) does not impose an exhaustion require- ment
  • court separately analyzed the events surrounding seizures of two individual portions of a single collection of rabbinical books

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