Velasco v. Government of Indonesia

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that foreign sovereign immunity, including foreign official immunity, \models federal common law relating to derivative U.S. sovereign immunity\
• recognizing that foreign sovereign immunity, including foreign official immunity, ʺmodels federal common law relating to derivative U.S. sovereign immunityʺ
• rejecting First Fidelity only with respect to application of apparent authority to the commercial activity exception to the FSIA; the Fourth Circuit stated “that a foreign official’s manifestation of authority to bind the sovereign is insufficient to bind the sovereign”
• courts may consider evidence outside the pleadings without converting a motion to dismiss when the defendant raises a factual jurisdictional challenge
• “courts have construed foreign sovereign immunity to extend to an individual acting in his official capacity on behalf of a foreign state”
• “courts have construed foreign sovereign im- munity to extend to an individual acting in his official capacity on behalf of a foreign state”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).