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7 Aug 2018

Author:
EarthRights Intl., Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic

Petitioners' brief

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The D.C. Circuit is incorrect that the [International Organizations Immunities Act] IOIA gives international organizations absolute immunity from suit. Rather, by its plain terms, the IOIA tracks the rules established in the FSIA...The IOIA’s “same immunity” provision does not place international organizations uniquely beyond the reach of the law. Instead, it incorporates the current law of foreign sovereign immunity, which is governed by the FSIA...

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