[20200528]LSB10481_最高法院允许在恐怖主义案件中对苏丹进行追溯性惩罚性赔偿.pdf
-
资源ID：29370
资源大小：641.85KB
全文页数：3页
- 资源格式： PDF
下载：注册后免费下载
快捷下载
账号登录下载
微信登录下载
|
友情提示
2、PDF文件下载后，可能会被浏览器默认打开，此种情况可以点击浏览器菜单，保存网页到桌面，就可以正常下载了。
3、本站不支持迅雷下载，请使用电脑自带的IE浏览器，或者360浏览器、谷歌浏览器下载即可。
4、本站资源下载后的文档和图纸-无水印,预览文档经过压缩，下载后原文更清晰。
5、试题试卷类文档，如果标题没有明确说明有答案则都视为没有答案，请知晓。
|
[20200528]LSB10481_最高法院允许在恐怖主义案件中对苏丹进行追溯性惩罚性赔偿.pdf
1、CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Supreme Court Permits Retroactive Punitive Damages Against Sudan in Terrorism Cases May 28, 2020 More than two decades after the U.S. embassies bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, some plaintiffs who alleged
2、that Sudanese support of Al Qaeda contributed to the attacks have won the opportunity to obtain punitive damages against the government of Sudan. The Supreme Court decided 8-0 (with no participation by Justice Kavanaugh) in Opati v. Republic of Sudan that Congress intended to make punitive damages a
3、vailable on a retroactive basis when it updated the terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) in 2008. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (D.C. Circuit) had decided otherwise, invalidating $4.3 billion in punitive damages and halving the Opati plaintiffs award fo
4、r the embassy bombings. Under Opati, the D.C. Circuit is to reinstate some or all of those punitive damages. State-Sponsored Terrorism Exception to the FSIA Under the FSIA, foreign states are immune from jurisdiction in U.S. courts unless an exception exists. Congress amended the FSIA in 1996 to pro
