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Case Citations [i] (Spring 2026)

handle is hein.ali/rethdfr0054 and id is 1 raw text is: THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE Spring 2026 Citations THE FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW OF THE UNITED STATES 3D PART I. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ITS RELATION TO UNITED STATES LAW CHAPTER 1. INTERNATIONAL LAW: CHARACTER AND SOURCES § 102. Sources of International Law C.A.5, 2025. Com. (k) cit. in ftn. Surviving spouses of participants in rallies in Nigeria sued former Nigerian governor, alleging that defendant was liable under the Torture Victim Protection Act for the extrajudicial killing of participants, who died when defendant ordered military forces to shoot indiscriminately at attendees of the rallies. The district court granted defendant's motion to dismiss based on foreign-official immunity. This court affirmed, holding that the Act did not abrogate defendant's common-law foreign-official immunity. The court noted that plaintiffs failed to adequately brief, and therefore waived, their argument in favor of recognizing a jus cogens exception to foreign- official immunity consistent with Restatement Third of Foreign Relations Law §§ 102 and 702, under which foreign officials forfeited immunity for heinous acts such as genocide, slavery, or torture. Does 1- 5 v. Obiano, 138 F.4th 955, 959. PART II. PERSONS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW Introductory Note D.D.C.2024. Intro. Note quot. in sup. Heirs of Hungarian Jewish art collectors, whose art collection was seized by Nazi collaborators during World War II, sued the Republic of Hungary, seeking to recover a sculpture from the collection that was in its possession. This court granted defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction, holding, among other things, that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act did not waive sovereign immunity under the expropriation exception for a sovereign's wartime taking of property from a foreign national, and the sculpture was taken by Nazi officials during Germany's wartime occupation of Hungary. The court cited the Restatement Third of Foreign Relations in COPYRIGHT C2026 By THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America For earlier citations, see the Appendices, Supplements, or Pocket Parts, if any, that correspond to the subject matter under examination.