Parties often argue privileges, immunities and other defenses before committees.
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All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.
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Members of parliament have certain legal immunities when conducting official proceedings.
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Other than beasting out in immunities, it may be his only shot.
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By mating with Neanderthals, they gave their offspring needed defenses and immunities.
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Many viruses don't make humans sick, thanks to immunities developed over many millennia.
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A U.S. president is given a wide array of immunities from criminal prosecutions.
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It defines who is a diplomat and thus entitled to special privileges and immunities.
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No arbitrary deprivations of life, liberty or property, or of citizens' "privileges or immunities".
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Finally, the lawsuit may not overcome Russia's immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA).
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The victims sought to do so under a provision of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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There were harsher punishments they could have imposed, and less expansive immunities they could have granted.
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Half will be used to test existing immunities; the other will be frozen for future comparisons.
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The various representatives enjoy full diplomatic privileges and immunities, but are not formally accorded diplomatic status.
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It might be that bats live in such large colonies, and develop special immunities to disease.
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The lawsuit sought damages under the so-called terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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Under either status, we will lose the rights, privileges, immunities, and responsibilities guaranteed by the U.S. citizenship.
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The company was not immune from the subpoena under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the judges said.
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Surviving measles patients can regain the lost immunities -- but only by being re-exposed to the illnesses.
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The big picture: The lawsuit was brought under a "terrorism exception" to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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" In separate opinions, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas argued that the ban on excessive fines should be incorporated through the privileges or immunities clause, which states, "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
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Both give bacteria and germs more exposure to our drugs, and more opportunities to adapt immunities to them.
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So far, we've covered the first clause, the Citizenship Clause, and the second, the Privileges and Immunities Clause.
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Justice Thomas, in a separate opinion, relied on the privileges-or-immunities rationale that had been pressed by originalists.
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The company, according to court records, argued it was immune from the subpoena under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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Since native populations had no immunities, the pathogens swept through towns, killing millions long before the colonists themselves arrived.
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Naviti We didn't see much of the Naviti tribe, which won both immunities, although their spiderweb shelter looked epic.
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All the privileges and immunities that come with being president don't actually kick in until you're actually the president.
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JOHN IANNARELLI, FORMER FBI NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON: To hand out so many immunities is unusual and to get nothing for it.
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She said the pathogens, potentially fatal to those with compromised immunities, probably come from local hospitals that discharge untreated waste.
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"Based on this information, we have registered Benomar with diplomatic privileges and immunities," a spokesman for Haley's office told NBC.
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The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act does not allow lawsuits to go forward when a foreign government seizes domestic-owned property.
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Argentina and YPF say that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act deprives U.S. courts of jurisdiction over sovereign acts of expropriation.
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Once we have immunities, like to the flu, we'll be fine with it, just like we are with the flu.
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The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act allows foreign countries to avoid being sued in U.S. courts, but does not cover commercial activities.
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In a 28-page decision, Caproni said the federal Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act did not require the return of the painting.
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The plaintiffs argue the level of immunity for foreign governments under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act should apply to international organizations.
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"It's important to keep in mind that issues of immunities would not apply here," the United Nations spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, said.
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No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
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The case required the Supreme Court to determine what types of assets are immune from seizure under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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The legal issues are complex, with each side citing lower court victories under different clauses of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA).
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But that means 97 to 99 percent will get through this and develop immunities and will be able to move beyond this.
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But despite a series of blindsides, he didn't give up and won three individual immunities, ramping himself up for a slingshot-filled victory.
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It's about being likable to the right people at the right time, winning crucial immunities and somehow connecting in just the right way.
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The court said the company should have made its attempt under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which offers strong protections to sovereign defendants.
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As a legal matter, the case concerned whether the company is immune to certain criminal penalties under the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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Because of various immunities offered to computer services, there are some complaints that Section 2628 interferes with efforts to curb child sex trafficking.
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It's just that, armed with the immunities enshrined in the United States legal code, the company's never had to do anything about it.
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The 22015th Amendment also forbade states from passing legislation that restricted the "privileges and immunities" of citizens, without precisely defining what these were.
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The House impeached Trump before that court or other federal courts could rule on the merits of claims of presidential privileges and immunities.
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The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act allows for foreign governments to be sued in U.S. courts under certain circumstances, including when private property is seized.
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The law now says the state attorney has to provide "clear and convincing evidence" the shooter is not entitled to "stand your ground" immunities.
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The second — and the one that's mainly at issue in this Supreme Court case — is a US law, the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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We can change Interpol's legal immunities in the U.S. to make it vulnerable if it accuses Americans of the "crime" of speaking up for Israel.
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The mystery company in the ongoing subpoena fight case, according to court records, has claimed immunity from the subpoena under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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However, governments "are not entitled to immunity from suits arising out of their commercial activities" under the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, according to ERI.
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Indeed, because of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), agents of foreign governments are shielded from U.S. laws and can essentially target Americans with impunity.
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Families of 9/11 victims have sought to bring lawsuits against Saudi Arabia, only to find the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) blocks such suits.
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Drug-resistant bacteria—germs that have adapted immunities to antibiotic treatments—have found their way to the International Space Station, according to a new study.
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The IFC, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank, however, says the International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945 shields it from any litigation.
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Justice Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, noted that the International Organizations Immunities Act allows the president to limit the immunity of any designated international organization.
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Judge José A. Cabranes cited the Obama administration's U.N.-friendly interpretation of the immunities convention as a significant factor in the three-judge panel's decision.
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They defended the world body's immunity under its Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, to which the United States is a signatory.
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The law now says the state attorney has to provide "clear and convincing evidence" that the shooter is not entitled to "stand your ground" immunities.
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Klebsiella bacteria are omnipresent in the environment — in the soil and in the human gut — but they can turn deadly for people with frayed immunities.
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The Trump administration should stop its trade representative from including these flawed, dangerous immunities in trade agreements, to prevent this abuse from simply shifting abroad.
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In the redacted court papers, the company said the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act protects it not just in civil cases but also in criminal cases.
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Or do we believe that they're doing such important work that they should have broad immunities that protect them from consequences when they do something wrong?
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"We call on all parties to refrain from measures that are inconsistent with the privileges and immunities enjoyed by members of the diplomatic community," he said.
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"We call on all parties to refrain from measures that are inconsistent with the privileges and immunities enjoyed by members of the diplomatic community," he added.
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But as the failings of 2628 come under closer scrutiny, a new tactic is being employed by those whose business models depend on 28503's sweeping immunities.
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"We call on all parties to refrain from measures that are inconsistent with the privileges and immunities enjoyed by members of the diplomatic community," the statement continued.
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This is in large part because of a 1976 US law, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), that gives foreign governments immunity from prosecution in US courts.
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The Constitution itself is filled with English legal terms (such as habeas corpus, and privileges and immunities) that cannot be fully grasped without understanding the English heritage.
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Concurrently, the court crafted immunities and denied that the Constitution is self-enforcing, thus robbing the Bill of Rights of much of its protection for fair trials.
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"We call on Iran to immediately resolve all open issues with the IAEA and to afford Agency inspectors the privileges and immunities to which they are entitled."
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The legal question was whether the company is protected under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a law that allows foreign countries to avoid lawsuits in U.S. courts.
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In a one-page opinion concurring with Ginsburg's opinion for the court, Gorsuch added that the Privileges or Immunities Clause "may well be" the "appropriate vehicle" for incorporation.
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"When the subject is immunity, no matter the shortcomings, inadequacies or inconsistencies, the CHP cannot be expected to give a 'no' vote on lifting immunities," Ozel told Reuters.
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In a unanimous ruling, Judges David Tatel, Thomas Griffith and Stephen Williams said they agree the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act does not immunize the corporation from this subpoena.
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The global organization has asserted that a 1946 convention on privileges and immunities insulates it from such legal action — a defense that the appellate judges are now weighing.
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We have so many ... we're trying so hard using so many clean wipes around our kids' lives to disinfect them that they're not building the immunities they need.
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The justices reduced the "privileges or immunities" guaranteed to American citizens in the 20003th to virtual insignificance, insisting that most rights still derived from state, not national, citizenship.
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In court, Swift argued that it would not make sense for the termination of her father's diplomatic position and his privileges and immunities to occur at separate times.
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What did ratifiers of the 14th Amendment in 1866-68 understand themselves as doing when declaring that states must honor the basic "privileges" and "immunities" of American citizens?
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"In fact what they are doing is stripping the principle of sovereign immunities which would turn the world for international law into the law of the jungle," Jubeir said.
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Human trait selection, in which specific enhancements are chosen by parents, could be a good thing—like giving our offspring built-in immunities to diseases such as HIV/AIDS.
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In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas explained why he preferred the privileges-or-immunities clause of the 14th amendment as the vehicle for incorporating rights against the states.
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But the U.S. appeals court said the heirs also failed to allege that the painting was "taken," and therefore could not reclaim it under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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The company has argued that it is immune from the subpoena under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and that the request would force the corporation to violate domestic law.
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But U.S. District Court Judge John Bates in a ruling last week said under the International Organizations Immunities Act, the IFC is immune to prosecution in the United States.
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At issue was whether mailing the lawsuit to Sudan's embassy violated the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a U.S. law governing when foreign governments may be sued in American courts.
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Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said in a statement that she had been "acting in the interests of South Africa" in recognizing "the immunities and privileges" of Mrs. Mugabe.
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The final version of the bill states that "nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict or interfere with the rights and immunities provided under" the Good Samaritan law.
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Some Chinese state-owned entities have argued that they have sovereign immunity and thus can't be sued in U.S. courts under the U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) of 1976.
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They do not have the immunities of actual diplomats from arrest and criminal prosecution while serving abroad, protections provided by a treaty known as the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
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Maryland Carey School of Law professor Danielle Keats Citron responded suggesting that Congress force platforms to judiciously moderate content in any changes to 230 in order to receive those immunities.
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The tribe won the first two immunities, and then was the beneficiary of a nearly impossible sequence of good luck, gaining the majority on every single tribe, after every swap.
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That interbreeding exposed young Homo sapiens to new viruses related to influenza, herpes and H.I.V., but also may have given humans immunities to these diseases that persist to this day.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the court, said the artifacts were shielded by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a federal law that generally bars seizing the assets of foreign states.
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The other two judges had voted to dismiss the claims of the man, Hugo Princz, for lack of jurisdiction over Germany under their interpretation of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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"In fact what they (Congress) are doing is stripping the principle of sovereign immunities, which would turn the world for international law into the law of the jungle," Al-Jubeir said.
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The short-lived League of Nations took a stab at expanding the rulebook to cover diplomatic privileges and immunities, but dropped the effort in 1927 as not important enough to pursue.
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" Earlier this month, Mr. Jubeir said during a news conference that the proposed legislation was "stripping the principle of sovereign immunities" and turning international law "into the law of the jungle.
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In ruling against the company, the appeals court said the request fell within an exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act that limits foreign governments from being sued in US courts.
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Conclusions were reached in matters of sea-lanes and free overland passages, the exchange of captured pirates/sailors, various immunities and protections for Englishmen voyaging in the empire of the Ottomans.
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Zaid counts among his accomplishments drafting legislation that enabled U.S. victims to file civil lawsuits against terrorist states, which passed as an amendment to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act in 1996.
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She announced that women already had the right to vote, under the privileges-and-immunities clause of the Constitution, and, in 1871, she made this argument before the House Judiciary Committee.
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" The distinction is small but could have substantial consequences because of the due process provision's application to all "person[s]" and the privileges or immunities provision's more limited application only to "citizens.
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The primary question the court addressed was whether the company could invoke the protections of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to prevent it from having to comply with the grand jury's subpoena.
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Russia cannot be sued because of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which largely prevents lawsuits against foreign governments, wrote Judge John Koeltl, a Clinton appointee in the Southern District of New York.
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At issue is how to determine what assets are immune from seizure under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a federal law that restricts when foreign entities can be sued in U.S. courts.
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While I am sensitive to protecting the privileges and immunities afforded to the President and his advisors, I believe it is critical to our constitutional structure that we protect Congress' authorities also.
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She's physical and strategic, able to build alliances and win immunities, but she just hasn't been able to completely integrate into that core group that makes it all the way to the end.
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The company sued both the Venezuelan government and state-owned oil companies under a U.S. law called the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, saying among other things that the property seizure violated international law.
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In the victims' case, Wesley said Forrest erred in finding that the building's owners could under the federal Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act qualify as Iran itself, or be deemed its agents or instrumentalities.
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Embassies and consulates enjoy certain privileges and immunities under the 1961 Vienna Convention and Turkey would very likely want to hold voting on their premises to reach some 1.5 million expatriate Turkish voters.
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The sailors and spouses mailed the lawsuit to Sudan's embassy, creating a controversy over whether this violated the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which addresses when foreign governments can be sued in American courts.
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The company sued both the Venezuelan government and state-owned oil companies under a U.S. law called the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, claiming among other things that the property seizure violated international law.
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Possibilities for them to do good — figuring out how to regenerate human cells, for instance, or creating immunities against disease, or gobbling up carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — tend to get short shrift.
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Ms. Le Pen has used various parliamentary immunities — first as a member of the European Parliament, and then as a member of the French Parliament — to resist a summons from the investigating judges.
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Under the theory of the House, members can set any ridiculously short period and then impeach a president who, like Trump has done, seeks judicial review over claims of executive privileges and immunities.
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For years before and after the 2008 self-inflicted Wall Street crash — steeped in greed and conflicts of interest — the undertaxed financial firms have expected immunities and taxpayer bailouts, weaker regulation and diminished disclosures.
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The relatives sued under the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which generally bars suits against foreign countries except those designated by the U.S. as a sponsor of terrorism, as Sudan has been since 1993.
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The constitutional tools that outgoing authoritarian elites use to accomplish these ends include factors like electoral system design, legislative appointments, federalism, legal immunities, the role of the military in politics and constitutional tribunal design.
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U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss in Washington, D.C. denied Guinea's motion for summary judgment on Monday, rejecting the country's argument that it was shielded from the claims by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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The Supreme Court upheld a previous federal appeals court ruling saying that Vavilov's parents did not enjoy the "privileges and immunities" of diplomats and so the exception could not be applied to their son.
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U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla rejected Greece's claim that she lacked jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, saying the case triggered an exception for "commercial activity" that allowed Greece to be sued.
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You take a case from normal field agents to investigate with no grand jury, no search warrant, no subpoenas and you give away immunities like candy with no requirement that those immunized testify against anyone.
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The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the funds are not shielded by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act from securities fraud claims over alleged misrepresentations that cause a "direct effect" in the United States.
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That view refuses to recognize the distinction in the 14th Amendment between "the rights" of all persons (due process and equal protection of law) and the additional "privileges and immunities" supposedly enjoyed by American citizens.
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The mystery company argued that it was immune from criminal proceedings under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and that the subpoena was unenforceable because it would require "the Corporation" to violate "Country A's" domestic law.
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As a result of the CDA230 immunities, unregulated social media giants failed to establish internal controls to contain and remove toxic content, since it was cheaper and easier to scale by looking the other way.
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A lot of it is our fault as concierge, bulldozer parenting, where we clear out all the obstacles such that we use so many sanitary wipes on our kids' lives they no longer develop immunities.
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That was a major problem, as the US needed someone in power to reauthorize a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) in 2011 allowing American troops to stay in Iraq with certain legal immunities and basing authorities.
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Judge John Koetl, in his ruling Tuesday, said that although the "primary wrongdoer in this alleged criminal enterprise is undoubtedly the Russian Federation," a lawsuit against that government is barred by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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"I hereby recognise the immunities and privileges of the First Lady of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Dr Grace Mugabe," the minister, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, said in a notice published in South Africa's Government Gazette on Sunday.
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According to Dr. Sean O'Leary, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on infectious diseases, the current schedule exposes young children to about 214 antigens, the toxins that prompt the body to produce immunities.
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The company, that calls itself a wholly owned agency of an unnamed foreign state, fought the subpoena arguing it was immune under a federal law called the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act that limits such prosecutorial action.
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Acceptance of that liability, Mr. Haggerty said, was the same as waiving immunity under the treaty the United Nations has invoked as protection, known as the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations.
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A federal law permits suits against state law enforcement officers who violate "any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws," but there is no such statute that explicitly authorizes suits against federal agents.
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The company, which calls itself a wholly owned agency of an unnamed foreign state, fought the subpoena arguing it was immune under a federal law called the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act that limits such prosecutorial action.
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He also represented three former attorneys general — including former attorney general Bill Barr, now President Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general — in a 2009 brief at the Supreme Court relating to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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In a 2-1 decision, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the differing requirements did not violate the U.S. Constitution's Privileges and Immunities Clause, which aims to put citizens of different states on equal footing.
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Likewise, the Republican judiciary has worked hard to transform the First Amendment into a charter of corporate privileges and immunities that invalidates state laws that would dare elevate matters like consumer privacy over an industry's marginal revenue.
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Although a federal law does permit suits against state law enforcement officers who violate "any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws," there is no such statute that explicitly authorizes suits against federal agents.
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In 1857, in Dred Scott, the Supreme Court asked whether any "negro whose ancestors were imported into this country and sold as slaves" is "entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities" guaranteed in the Constitution.
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The plaintiffs sued under the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), which generally bars claims against foreign countries except those designated by the United States as a state sponsor of terrorism, as Sudan has been since 1993.
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He said the statute conflicted with South Africa's Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges Act, which was cited in the decision to ignore the court order to detain Bashir, but that the government remained committed to the fight against impunity.
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The legal question is whether there are limits to immunity for entities like the IFC under the 1945 International Organizations Immunity Act, as there are for foreign countries under a 1976 law called the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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We decided from reading a book about a guy who worked in the Russian biocontainment business and later defected that your immunities go way down, and pretty soon you're just ready to accept any germ that comes along.
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"I hereby recognise the immunities and privileges of the First Lady of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Dr Grace Mugabe," said International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane in a notice published in the Government Gazette on Sunday.
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The EU court ruled anyone elected to the European Parliament "enjoys immunities" to travel and take part in parliamentary sessions and an MEP cannot be subject to detention or legal proceedings because of views expressed or votes cast.
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They have become the ruling elite and because of this and their political immunities, nothing will ever change that truly benefits the American people unless there is political "revolution" to affect change in our overly burdensome governmental system.
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There were the inexcusable decisions to grant immunities to key Clinton backers without first serving them with a subpoena that would have allowed the FBI to extract a quid pro quo for any immunity that thereafter might be granted.
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Expanding hate crimes laws that have often been used to protect people of color from violence motivated by racial prejudice, including police violence, is a particularly cynical policy choice given the extraordinary protections and immunities that police already have.
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Mueller believes Manafort fed information to Russian with intel ties The firm has also had a lobbying team focus on reform of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act -- the same law at issue in the mystery company's grand jury challenge.
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While confusion and misinformation surrounding Section 230 has reached a fever pitch in the weeks following these tragedies, the immunities granted to an "interactive computer service" over 21625 years ago have been the subject of increased scrutiny for years.
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Another is that people have immunities to the flu but not to the coronavirus, which means that one person with Covid-19 could spread it much more easily in an office or school than a person with the flu.
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What's more, in a meeting with US officials on Monday, Maduro's regime said it wouldn't offer the traditional privileges and immunities that American diplomats receive when they're stationed abroad, US officials told me, something Guaidó said he would grant.
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The legal question before the justices is whether there are limits to immunity for entities like the IFC under the 1945 International Organizations Immunity Act, as there are for foreign countries under a 1976 law called the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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The two conservatives would have used a different mechanism to incorporate the 8th Amendment, they wrote, relying on the 14th Amendment's privileges and immunities clause, rather than its due process clause, as Ginsburg and the rest of the court did.
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In addition to presidential immunity, Trump's lawyer Marc Kasowitz argued that the alleged defamatory statements were also "privileged or protected by one or more immunities, including, but not limited to, under the Constitution of the United States," among other defenses.
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In the appeals court, the corporation fought to quash the subpoena, arguing it is immune from subpoenas under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and that the subpoena is unreasonable and oppressive because it would force the corporation to violate domestic law.
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Such technologies range from hypersonic missiles, which Russia and China are racing to develop — with the potential to upend the entire global balance of power — to synthetic biology and genetic manipulation, with the potential to create new biological weapons or immunities.
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The plaintiffs sued in federal court in Washington under the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which generally bars claims against foreign countries except those designated by the United States as a state sponsor of terrorism, as Sudan has been since 1993.
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Kidane and his lawyers invoked an exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), which says foreign governments can be sued in the US as long as the entire tort on which the lawsuit is based occurred on American soil.
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The court struck down Turkey's argument that it is protected under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act in two separate cases filed on behalf of over a dozen plaintiffs, establishing a key marker to hold Ankara accountable in a U.S. court on civil charges.
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It agreed with Venezuela's argument, which the U.S. government supported, that Exxon should have tried to enforce the award under the federal Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), which offers more protections for sovereign defendants, rather than be permitted to use streamlined procedures.
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Biologists have been mixing the DNA of different animals since the 1970s, but the idea of injecting …Read more ReadEventually, transgenic biotechnologies could be used to treat a host of medical problems, ranging from genetic disorders to immunities that combat infectious diseases.
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In its 20-plus-year life, never has Section 230 been included in trade agreements, and efforts to now insert it into one reveal an established industry desperate to cling to immunities that have supported its extraordinary rise to power and wealth.
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By the terms of the Constitution, free exercise of religion is one of the privileges and immunities attached to citizenship; it can hardly be said to be possessed by all those who seek refuge in, or wish to emigrate to, the United States.
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Technically, it's true that the immunities contained in Section 230 don't exempt tech companies from criminal liability or from their duties to shareholders, says Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.
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"In a district like mine, arming teachers or school personnel and cloaking them in Stand Your Ground immunities (sic) in lots of schools where the children look like me is not something I'm prepared to do today or any day," Shaw said.
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More than 21979 crew members and relatives have joined a lawsuit, filed in February 21981 in a federal court under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which allows victims to sue state sponsors of terrorism for torture, hostage-taking, personal injury or death.
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Exactly how she would accomplish this goal is unclear, but an increasing number of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have begun to question whether the immunities social media companies receive from Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act should be altered or revoked.
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The firm had argued it was exempt from the subpoena because of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and also that the subpoena was "unreasonable and oppressive" under federal rules because it would require the company to violate the law of the country that owns it.
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LJUBLJANA, July 7 (Reuters) - Slovenia's General State Prosecutor Zvonko Fiser said on Thursday that a police raid on the country's central bank was legal and said he cannot act on the European Central Bank's claim that it infringed the ECB's legal privileges and immunities.
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"The US has proved, once again, to everybody, its total, blatant disregard for the jus cogens in international law as well as for universally-recognized rights and immunities," Iran&aposs Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in response during a speech in Tehran on Tuesday.
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A lower court upheld the judgment, ruling that the Foreign Service Immunities Act "does not specify a location where the papers are to be sent" and that nothing in the law requires that the papers be mailed to a location in the foreign state.
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Special government immunities, regulatory loopholes put in place to support the ancient bulletin board internet, and a near total pass by antitrust enforcers, have enabled the intermedia to unfairly skim most of the revenue growth, value creation, data, and customer interaction from the rest of the economy.
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"Seizure of information owned or held by the ECB, irrespective of where the information is located and whether it is classified or not, infringes the Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Union," Draghi said in a letter to the Slovenian State Prosecutor General.
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Despite the OIC's importance in the international community, and a senior State Department official's recommendation that Congress extend diplomatic status to the OIC, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chose instead to introduce S.2942- A bill to extend certain privileges and immunities to the Gulf Cooperation Council.
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It decrees that any person born in the United States is a citizen, and that states may not abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens; nor deprive them of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor deny them the equal protection of the laws.
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Starting in 2001, several groups of plaintiffs sued in federal court in Washington under the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which generally bars claims against foreign countries except those designated by the United States as a state sponsor of terrorism, as Sudan has been since 1993.
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U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan on Wednesday held the copyright owners, Pablo Star Ltd and Pablo Star Media, did not properly serve the Welsh government with notice of the litigation under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), which limits the liability of foreign nations in U.S. courts.
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The justices ruled 7-1 that there are limits to immunity for entities like the one involved in this case - the International Finance Corp (IFC) - under the 1945 International Organizations Immunity Act, just as there are for foreign countries under a 1976 law called the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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The high court last Tuesday ruled that the improper mailing violated the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a U.S. law governing when foreign governments may be sued in American courts, tossing out more than $314 million in damages from Sudan for a group of injured sailors and their spouses.
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Before, the defendant/shooter used "stand your ground" as a defense and had to prove they were in fear of further body harm, the law now says the state attorney has to provide "clear and convincing evidence" that the defendant/shooter is not entitled to "stand your ground" immunities.
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In particular, the focus here is on the state's Article IX, which presents the concept of "home rule" — which defines the "rights, powers, privileges and immunities granted to" local governments — and, in the same breath, also outlines the state's duties and powers over local governments, including their very creation.
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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals had upheld the order holding the company in contempt despite its arguments that it was immune from the subpoena under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and that the subpoena is unreasonable and oppressive because it would force the corporation to violate domestic law.
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A lower court last week upheld the subpoena after the company, which is owned by a foreign government, argued that it was immune from criminal proceedings under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and that the subpoena was unenforceable because it would require "the Corporation" to violate "Country A's" domestic law.
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In 1873, Rainey went to the floor of the House to argue for civil rights: "We ask them because we know it is proper, not because we want to deprive any other class of the rights and immunities they enjoy, because they are granted to us by the law of the land."
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But our senators and the legal scholars they consulted tell us this interpretation of our immunity laws is contrary to history and the plain words of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a law Congress passed in 1976 that was long understood to remove sovereign immunity for terrorist attacks occurring on US soil.
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No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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Michael RuseDirector of History and Philosophy of Science, Florida State UniversityAt the sensible level, presumably we are going to get more tropical diseases in temperate lands so those with natural immunities to things like malaria will be in good shape – does this mean that sickle cell anemia [which protects against malaria] will become the norm?
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In 1947, the "Law of the Governor Elect" for the election of the first civilian governor of Puerto Rico, expanded the reach of the U.S. Constitution by establishing that the rights, privileges and immunities will be respected in the same degree in the territory as if Puerto Rico was a state of the Union.
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Ecuador granted Assange citizenship in January in an effort to resolve his prolonged legal predicament in the U.K. The Ecuadorian government also asked the U.K. last month to grant Assange diplomatic status, which would offer him certain legal immunities and possibly allow him to leave the embassy and the U.K. That request, however, was rejected.
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" In the case of an ICC referral, it said, General Assembly members are faced with "competing obligations" from the U.N. Charter, the Rome Statute that established the ICC, customary law, "or even internal legislation with respect to immunities of heads of state, a member of a government or parliament, an elected representative or a government official.
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Sudan contends that the lawsuit had not been properly initiated because the notice of the claims was sent to its embassy in Washington rather than directly to its minister of foreign affairs in Khartoum, violating both the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a U.S. law governing when foreign governments may be sued in American courts, and international law.
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NBC News reported that the office of Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki HaleyNimrata (Nikki) HaleyThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Haley: 'Threats of China on full display' in Hong Kong Juan Williams: Trump's trouble with women MORE determined that Jamal Benomar, a British citizen born in Morocco, should receive diplomatic privileges and immunities.
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"Contrary to the mistaken charge that the President lacked 'lawful cause or excuse' to resist House Democrats' subpoenas, the President acted only after securing advice from the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and based on established legal principles or immunities," White House counsel Pat Cipollone, outside lawyer Jay Sekulow and other attorneys wrote.
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In 2900, Congress passed the "terrorism exception" to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, allowing victims and their families to go to federal court to seek damages against a notorious gallery of rogue terrorist states – such as Iran, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, North Korea and Cuba – for blowing up embassies, downing commercial aircraft, taking hostages, attacking peace-keeping forces, and assassinating public figures.
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"The safety and security of our diplomats, intelligence officers, military and other senior officials of the U.S. government, and their ability to perform their duties without foreign influence or intervention, would be seriously imperiled by a process intent on denying them the international immunities that have been accepted by all civilized nations since the 16th century and earlier," the letter said.
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"It is abundantly clear that one reason the legislation was passed was to afford a federal right in federal courts because, by reason of prejudice, passion, neglect, intolerance or otherwise, state laws might not be enforced and the claims of citizens to the enjoyment of rights, privileges, and immunities guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment might be denied by the state agencies," Douglas noted.
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The relevant text of the amendment simply says: No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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As Prime Minster Theresa May has stated several times, the U.K. doesn't want the European Court of Justice ruling on U.K. cases on the day Britain leaves the EU. At the same time, the government said, European bodies based in the U.K., such as the European Medicines Agency can remain for a transitional period after 2019 with the same privileges and immunities.
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The court upheld an earlier ruling holding the company in contempt despite the firm's argument it was immune from the subpoena under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and that complying with the subpoena would force it to break the laws of Country A. The court also ordered the company to pay a fine that would increase daily for each day that the firm does not comply with the subpoena.
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" After Emancipation, the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, cast off the shackles of history with this guarantee: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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While the majority opinion by Ginsburg used the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement that states provide "due process" to apply the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause to the states — the provision the court has used to incorporate most of the Bill of Rights against the states — Justice Clarence Thomas wrote separately that the Fourteenth Amendment's clause barring states from limiting the "privileges or immunities" of citizens should be used to apply the Excessive Fines Clause to the states.
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The federal grand jury subpoena, which is being kept under seal along with related court filings, seeks information from a corporation owned by a foreign government, known in court filings only as "Country A." The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals had upheld the order holding the company in contempt despite the company's arguments that it was immune from the subpoena under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FISA) and that the subpoena is unreasonable and oppressive because it would force the corporation to violate domestic law.
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Rather, it simply sets forth a basic jurisdictional rule of law that, until relatively recently, was understood, including by the executive branch of our government, to be the law already: namely, that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), which for nearly half a century has allowed suits against foreign nations in cases alleging injury — a car accident, for example — caused by an employee or agent of that government, applies equally to cases involving allegations of sovereign support, through officials or agents or government-controlled charities, of terrorist attacks that cause injury or death inside the U.S. Most Americans would be shocked that this is even a subject of debate.
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