D.C. Circuit Rejects FSIA Waiver Exception to Uphold Immunity of Sovereign-Owned Property
In a recent decision, Bainbridge Fund Ltd. v. Republic of Argentina, the D.C. Circuit rejected a judgment creditor’s attempt to attach and execute upon the Chancery Annex, a building owned by Argentina in Washington, D.C. Argentina’s creditors have chased it for two decades, since the beginning of its sovereign debt crisis, to varying degrees of…
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