The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether plaintiffs asserting claims against foreign states or their agencies or instrumentalities must meet a heightened pleading standard when invoking ...

English High Court determines that ratification of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards does not constitute prior written agreement to waive sovereign immunity ...

Galette and Colt force the Court to confront a basic question about modern federalism: whether constitutional immunity ...

The Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral arguments this week in a criminal case that largely occurred outside the United States itself. At issue in Türkiye Halk Bankasi v. United States ...

The Montana Supreme Court reinstated a complaint brought by two oil companies against a mineral company after a lower court improperly found it was entitled to sovereign immunity as an arm of the ...

The US Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a case concerning whether Congress waived the US’s sovereign immunity in civil lawsuits involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). In the case ...

A sharply divided Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas is a government agency and is entitled to sovereign immunity from civil lawsuits. The decision by the ...

The U.S. legal system is not prepared to handle defendants who consider themselves so-called "sovereign citizens" like Waukesha Christmas parade attacker Darrell Brooks, according to legal experts. On ...