United States Lines, Inc. v. Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.

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• observing that in some circumstances under the FSIA, “a right without a remedy does exist”
• finding that plaintiffs could not execute against assets of Chile’s wholly-owned airline to satisfy judgment against Chile, because plaintiffs did not overcome presumption that airline was juridically separate from Chile
• holding that assassination is not commercial activity
• involving suit against the Republic of Chile and Chilean nationals that Chilean government refused to extradite who had been indicted for the assassination of the former Chilean Ambassador to the United States and his wife
• placing burden on plaintiff, who sought to execute upon assets of instrumentality in satisfaction of judgment against related foreign government, to show abuse of corporate form of type Bancec recognized as sufficient to overcome instrumentality’s presumptively separate existence
• \[B]oth Bancec and the FSIA legislative history caution against too easily overcoming the presumption of separateness.\

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