Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporación Cimex, S. A. (Cuba) · ¶104

All to say, we need not find an abrogation lurking between the lines in the Helms-Burton Act to render Congress’s work comprehensible. The statute is perfectly coherent as written. It enables plaintiffs to sue any private parties that traffic in confiscated property. And it also enables plaintiffs to sue foreign instrumentalities when their trafficking falls within an FSIA exception—meaning, that their activity meets the conditions Congress has decided should strip immunity from a sovereign. That construction adheres to the text of both the Helms-Burton Act and the FSIA, with no conflict between the two and no hidden abrogation.

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