The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that a party cannot establish the U.S. commercial nexus required to invoke the FSIA’s ...

Limited v. Antrix Corp. was an odd one: The justices asked no questions at all about the question on which they’d granted ...

This morning, the Supreme Court denied the Trump Administration's application for a stay of a district court's temporary restraining order blocking the ...

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson would ... the Northern District of Texas declined to give Lewis qualified immunity, which shields state and local government actors from civil ...

Pina moved for judgment, citing qualified immunity, but a federal judge denied the motion ... Hatch. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a Barack Obama appointee, issued a statement concurring with the denial, ...

Sotomayor said the ruling “does not categorically reject ... because of “the United States’ ‘reciprocal self-interest’ in receiving sovereign immunity in foreign courts.” “Ultimately, today’s decision ...

Sotomayor sympathized with the U.S. government ... The battle over whether the survivors can pierce Hungary’s immunity as a foreign sovereign has extended for 14 years, reaching the Supreme ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the court, said the plaintiffs had not demonstrated that an exception to the "presumptive immunity" for foreign nations for stolen property applies under the ...

Justice Sotomayor acknowledged there was a “moral ... Since some of those nations grant the same immunity to the United States that it grants to them, a brief from the Biden administration ...

Sotomayor, an alum of Princeton University ... our legitimacy is going to be questioned, and I think the immunity case is one of those situations. I don’t think Americans have accepted that ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor argued during a speech on Tuesday that court decisions stand, as some Democrats and members of the media suggest President Donald Trump may not abide by court ...