Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporación Cimex, S. A. (Cuba) · ¶80

The “sum total” of the Helms-Burton Act’s work clearly abrogates the foreign sovereign immunity of Cuban agencies and instrumentalities and displaces the FSIA’s default sovereign immunity regime. Kirtz, 601 U. S., at 55. The Helms-Burton Act authorizes private suits against Cuban agencies and instrumentalities—suits that would largely be nonstarters if subjected to the FSIA’s requirements. 22 U. S. C. §§6082(a)(1)(A), 6023(11). The Act expressly refers to claims, actions, and judgments against the Cuban Government. §§6064(a), 6082(d), (a)(7)(B). The Act treats suits under the Act as falling within federal-question jurisdiction, unlike suits under the FSIA. §6082(c)(1). And the Act expressly reinstates the President as gatekeeper for those suits, akin to the pre- FSIA regime. §§6064(a), 6082(d), (h)(1)(B), 6085(b), (c)(1)(B).

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