Wei Ye, Hao Wang, Does, A, B, C, D, E, F, and Others Similarly Situated v. Jiang Zemin and Falun Gong Control Office, A/K/A Office 610

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• holding that FSIA does not apply to heads of state
• finding defendant entitled to head-of-state immunity despite his perpetration of crimes violative of jus cogens norms
• “Because the FSIA does not apply to heads of states, the decision concerning the immunity of foreign heads of states remains vested where it was prior to 1976 — with the Executive Branch.”
• “The Executive Branch’s determination that a foreign leader should be immune from suit even when the leader is accused of acts that violate jus cogens norms is established by a suggestion of immunity.”
• “[A] determination by the Executive Branch that a foreign head of state is immune from suit is conclusive and a court must accept such a determination without reference to the underlying claims of a plaintiff.”
• “[A] determination by the Executive Branch that a foreign head of state is immune from suit is conclusive and a court must accept such a determination without reference to the underlying claims of a plaintiff.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).