Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporación Cimex, S. A. (Cuba) · ¶54

Congress does not ordinarily enact self-defeating statutes. See Quarles v. United States, 587 U. S. 645, 654 (2019). And more specifically, Congress does not ordinarily “authorize a suit against a sovereign with one hand, only to bar it with the other.” FOMB, 598 U. S., at 348. But the Cuban government defendants’ interpretation of the Helms-Burton Act would do just that and largely negate the Act’s cause of action.

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