Zeumer v. Fire Burglary Instruments, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “it is the foreign state that has to have engaged in activity” being analyzed under the commercial exception
• finding “trial participation and post-trial argument” insufficient to establish an implied waiver of foreign sovereign 22 immunity
• “[T]he FSIA’s commercial activities exception carves out, and exempts from sovereign immunity, a sphere of private commercial action that foreign states sometimes undertake.”
• “Where ‘explicit’ waiver occurs, the foreign state expressly consents to forgo its sovereign immunity with respect to a certain class of disputes or a particular subject matter.”
• law-of-the-case doctrine does not require or permit ignoring jurisdictional defects

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).