Ungar v. Palestine Liberation Organization

How courts have described this case

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• noting that appealing a rejection of foreign sovereign immunity “ordinarily divests the district court of jurisdiction to proceed with the litigation pending [the appeal’s] resolution”
• noting that FSIA’s legislative history makes it clear that the “objective of the bill was to codify sovereign immunity doctrine as recognized by international law and to ensure that this international standard would be applied in federal litigation”
• noting that FSIA’s legislative history makes it clear that the “objective of the bill was to codify sovereign immunity doctrine as recognized by international law and to ensure that this international standard would be applied in federal litigation”
• noting that FSIA's legislative history makes it clear that the \objective of the bill was to codify sovereign immunity doctrine as recognized by international law and to ensure that this international standard would be applied in federal litigation\
• “After all, a district court’s denial of a motion to dismiss a complaint on the ground of foreign sovereign immunity is immediately appealable under the collateral order doctrine.”
• listing three points of error raised by Defendants on appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).