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Polak v. International Monetary Fund

REPLY to opposition to motion re MOTION to Dismiss

14 Cited authorities

  1. District of Columbia et al. v. Heller

    554 U.S. 570 (2008)   Cited 3,439 times   50 Legal Analyses
    Holding it irrelevant to the constitutionality of D.C.'s "handgun" ban that the law allowed citizens the possession of substitutes, like "long guns"

  2. Atkinson v. Inter-American Development Bank

    156 F.3d 1335 (D.C. Cir. 1998)   Cited 59 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that in enacting the IOIA, Congress adopted the body of foreign sovereign immunity law “only as it existed in 1945—when immunity of foreign sovereigns was absolute,” subject only to the President's decision to extend such immunity

  3. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

    216 F.3d 1180 (D.C. Cir. 2000)   Cited 51 times   1 Legal Analyses

    No. 99-1383 Argued May 8, 2000 Decided July 14, 2000 On Petition for Review of a Regulation of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. David E. Adelman argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Eric R. Glitzenstein and Howard Crystal. Wendy M. Keats, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for respondents. With her on the brief were David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Leonard Schaitman, Attorney, and John F. Cordes, Solicitor, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

  4. Mendaro v. World Bank

    717 F.2d 610 (D.C. Cir. 1983)   Cited 49 times
    Holding that the “facially broad waiver of immunity” in the “World Bank's Articles of Agreement” did not “waive the Bank's immunity to employee suits”

  5. Brzak v. United Nations

    551 F. Supp. 2d 313 (S.D.N.Y. 2008)   Cited 16 times
    Holding that former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees was immune under IOIA, where “acts alleged occurred in the course of an official's exercise of functions”

  6. Broadbent v. Organization of Am. States

    628 F.2d 27 (D.C. Cir. 1980)   Cited 38 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that an international organization's employment of civil servants, regardless of their nationality, is not a commercial activity

  7. Inversora v. Energoprojekt-Niskogradnja

    264 F. App'x 13 (D.C. Cir. 2008)   Cited 6 times
    Stating that “to overcome the World Bank's immunity, appellants must rely on the express waiver in the organization's Articles of Agreement,” and concluding that the appellants' claims did not fall within the scope of the waiver

  8. Pan American v. Montgomery County

    338 Md. 214 (Md. 1995)   Cited 7 times

    Misc. No. 30, September Term, 1994. May 11, 1995. Appeal from the United States District Court. John J. Delaney (David L. Cahoon, Elizabeth M. Hosford, Linowes and Blocher, Silver Spring, J. Thomas Lenhart, Deborah B. Baum, Shaw, Pittman, Potts Trowbridge, Washington, DC, on brief), for appellant. A. Katherine Hart, Sr. Asst. County Atty. (Marc P. Hansen, Acting County Atty., Edward B. Lattner, Asst. County Atty., Rockville, all on brief), for appellee. James H. Hulme, Christopher Van Hollen, Jr

  9. United States v. BCCI Holdings

    73 F.3d 403 (D.C. Cir. 1996)   Cited 3 times

    No. 94-5411. Argued November 20, 1995. Decided January 19, 1996. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. (No. 91cv00655-01) Louis G. Ferrand, Jr., argued the cause for the appellant. William M. Berenson was on the brief. Ruth A. Harvey, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, argued the cause for appellee United States of America. J. Christopher Kohn and Stefan D. Cassella, Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, were on the brief. Before: GINSBURG

  10. Boimah v. United Nations General Assembly

    664 F. Supp. 69 (E.D.N.Y. 1987)   Cited 10 times
    Noting that the General Assembly "enjoys the[] same immunities" as the UN under the CPIUN

  11. Section 288a - Privileges, exemptions, and immunities of international organizations

    22 U.S.C. § 288a   Cited 106 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Making only the "archives of international organizations ... inviolable" and "[p]roperty ... immune from search"

  12. Section 288 - "International organization" defined; authority of President

    22 U.S.C. § 288   Cited 94 times   10 Legal Analyses
    Listing more than 80 entities "designated by executive order as public international organizations"

  13. Section 286h - Status, privileges, and immunities of the United States

    22 U.S.C. § 286h   Cited 14 times
    Incorporating relevant articles into U.S. law