Hungary v. Simon

Decided February 21, 2025. Sonia Sotomayor delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 23-867 · 604 U.S. 115 · Cited 11 times

An allegation that a foreign sovereign liquidated expropriated property, commingled the proceeds with other funds, and then used some of those commingled funds for commercial activities in the United States cannot alone satisfy the commercial nexus requirement of the expropriation exception in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976.

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