Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporación Cimex, S. A. (Cuba) · ¶30

Historically, U. S. courts applied foreign sovereign immunity as a common-law doctrine. In the years preceding 1952, for the most part, this meant U. S. courts deferred to the State Department on whether a foreign sovereign was immune from suit.

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