Ruggiero v. Compania Pervana de Vapores Dodson v. Polski Linie Oceaniczne Gdynia Locascio v. P. M. Jakarta Lloyd

Abstract

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and State-owned corporations — Personal injury actions against a foreign State-owned corporation — Whether plaintiffs entitled to jury trial — Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act 1976 — Whether denial of jury trial a contravention of the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution — History of sovereign immunity — Actions against foreign States originally unknown at common law — The law of the United States