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District Court Avoids Testing Common Law Sovereign Immunity Defense Remanded By The Second Circuit But Dismisses The Claims On Personal Jurisdiction Grounds Instead
Carpenter v. Republic of Chile, et al., 07-CV-5290 (JS)(ETB) (E.D.N.Y. June 2011), is the remand from a Second Circuit decision of last year (601 F.3d 776 (2d Cir. 2010)) requiring the District Court to reconsider the dismissal on sovereign immunity grounds of various individual defendants (the Court of Appeals affirming the balance of the District Court’s earlier decision concerning the sovereign).

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader



