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America West Airlines Inc and Another v. GPA Group Ltd and Others

United States.  12 June 1989 .

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

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Abstract

State immunity — Jurisdictional immunity — Commercial activity exception — State corporation — Requirement of sufficient nexus between case and the United States — Whether sufficient that the corporation doing business in the United States — Requirement of direct effect in the United States — Requirement that effect be substantial and foreseeable — State corporation unaware that aircraft engine it was servicing in Ireland was to be used in the United States — Whether financial hardship suffered in the United States due to destruction of engine constituting a direct effect — United States Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act 1976 — The law of the United States

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© Cambridge University Press 1993

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