[EL] Dem Nat Committee sues Russia; link to complaint

[Mark Scarberry]

It's been a while (35 years!) since I handled a case involving the Foreign
Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 USC 1602-1611, but isn't it quite clear that
the FSIA blocks the action against the Russian government? Perhaps
Richard's blog or other commentaries have dealt with this question. The
complaint cites 1605(a)(5) & (a)(2)), but "discretionary acts" are not
within the exception in 1605(a)(5), nor could these actions reasonably be
classified as "commercial" under 1603(d) for purposes of 1605(a)(2). Am I
missing something? Is the naming of Russia a stunt?

Mark

Prof. Mark S. Scarberry
Pepperdine Univ. School of Law

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Fredric Woocher <fwoocher at strumwooch.com>
wrote:

> I think they are going to need more Doe Defendants than 1 - 10.
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> Fredric D. Woocher
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> *From:* Law-election [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu]
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> *Subject:* [EL] Dem Nat Committee sues Russia; link to complaint
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> My blog post has a link to the complaint
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> http://ballot-access.org/2018/04/20/democratic-national-
> committee-sues-russia-trump-campaign-and-others-over-2016-election/
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