Pocket Kings Limited v. Safenames Limited and the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Abstract

States — Federal States — Constituent territories — United States of America — Whether States of the Union are sovereign — Whether entitled to State immunity — Whether governmental acts enforceable in foreign State — Commonwealth of Kentucky

State immunity — Jurisdictional immunity — Entitlement to immunity — Federal States — Whether constituent territory of federal State entitled to State immunity — Whether exercising sovereign authority — State Immunity Act 1978 — Service of process upon constituent territory — The law of England