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Today, the United States Supreme Court affirmed 6 - 3 the California decision in Republic of Austria v. Altmann. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had found in favor of Altmann in its interpretation of 28 U.S.C. §1330(a) of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, see Cert. Granted in Altmann Case. The Supreme Court limited its analysis to the question of whether the FSIA would apply to pre-FSIA facts which it answered in the affirmative. "The floodgates are open," comments FSIA expert Thomas G. Corcoran. - Contributed by Clemens Kochinke, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington, DC.
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