Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporación Cimex, S. A. (Cuba) · ¶86

But as the Court later explained in another FSIA case, “general language in judicial opinions” does not control “quite different circumstances that the Court was not then considering.” Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States, 598 U. S. 264, 278 (2023) (quotation marks omitted). More to the point, the FSIA (and this Court’s descriptions of the FSIA) could not and did not preclude Congress from enacting a later exception to foreign sovereign immunity. See Bank Markazi v. Peterson, 578 U. S. 212, 236 (2016). And here, 22 U. S. C. §6082(c)(1) says that the FSIA is not the basis of jurisdiction for suits under the Helms-Burton Act—let alone the sole basis. Section 1331 of Title 28, the general federal-question statute, is the source of jurisdiction.

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