The Court has been sympathetic to state immunity claims in other recent decisions, but has declined twice to consider the Illinois dispute.
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Browne-Wilkinson said the ruling appeared to mark the first time a national court had denied a foreign head of state immunity from prosecution.
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Sampson and others lost their case in the UK High Court when the Saudis used the State Immunity Act 1978 as their defence.
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It also agreed with a lower court that claims against Mugabe himself were properly dismissed on the grounds of head of state immunity.
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In a 1996 decision, Seminole Tribe v . Florida, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could not abrogate state immunity under the Commerce Clause.
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Pinochet's lawyers argued that though it might be morally regrettable, Britain's 1978 State Immunity Act was sufficiently sweeping to give even Adolf Hitler immunity.
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Usually invoking the Constitution's 11th Amendment and sovereign immunity, the high court since 1992 has eaten away at Congress's power to revoke state immunity.
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The German government appealed a decision by the Italian supreme civil court for restitutions at the International Court of Justice, claiming for State immunity.
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Additionally, that there is little support in international conventions and state practice for the idea that severity of a crime could eliminate state immunity.
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Pinochet's lawyers argued that though it might be morally regrettable, Britain's 1978 State Immunity Act was sufficiently sweeping to give even Adolph Hitler immunity.
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