Yessenin-Volpin v. Novosti Press Agency

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that TASS and Novosti Press Agency were immune under FSIA from libel suit based on articles published in Izvestia and three other Soviet journals
• concluding that TASS and Novosti Press Agency were immune under FSIA from libel suit based on articles published in Izvestia and three other Soviet journals
• holding generally commercial Soviet news agencies immune for allegedly libellous story produced for official Soviet state publications
• describing the difficulties of construing and applying the requirements of “ownership” under the FSIA to foreign entities
• “The plaintiff argues that the Immunities Act which ‘became effective only subsequent to the time this action was commenced and long after the accrual of plaintiffs causes of action of claims,’ should not be applied to this case.”
• “[defendant] was an instrumentality of the [government]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).