The indictment of Halkbank, majority-owned by Turkey, for allegedly participating in a multi-year scheme to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions, tests the limits of U.S. criminal jurisdiction to prosecute ...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) is not an 'arm of the State' of New Jersey, and it cannot claim sovereign immunity against personal injury ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether plaintiffs asserting claims against foreign states or their agencies or instrumentalities must meet a heightened pleading standard when invoking ...

The Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral arguments this week in a criminal case that largely occurred outside the United States itself. At issue in Türkiye Halk Bankasi v. United States ...

The Montana Supreme Court reinstated a complaint brought by two oil companies against a mineral company after a lower court improperly found it was entitled to sovereign immunity as an arm of the ...

The Supreme Court of Texas narrowly decided Friday that sovereign immunity, which largely shields government agencies from civil lawsuits, also protects the operator of the Texas electric grid. The ...

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A federal judge has dismissed an Eagle County woman's complaint against the law enforcement officials who are prosecuting her for numerous charges of forgery, cybercrime and sending fake tax documents ...

It started as a traffic stop for a broken tail light. Then the case of self-proclaimed sovereign citizen Michael Mattingly devolved into a series of delays, unusual filings and, eventually, a ...