Halkbank Hits the Supreme Court
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Sovereign Immunity
Scott Zamost: This is a very wide-ranging case, both in terms of its global significance and in terms of the statutory and constitutional issues that it raises. The real arguments we saw breakdown here are first a jurisdictional argument as to whether the kind of defining US code statutory provision that establishes criminal jurisdiction actually applies to foreign sovereigns with Hulk Bank. And then the second question as to if the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the statute that lays out our statutory framework for sovereign immunity in the U.S., applies to criminal actions such as this. He says having Lisa Blatt, who's a very experienced Supreme Court advocate, take up, help banks cause, I think, both contributed
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