Justices rule out “commingled funds” theory in Hungarian Holocaust survivors’ compensation suit

Justices rule out “commingled funds” theory in Hungarian Holocaust survivors’ compensation suit

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A unanimous Supreme Court on Friday threw out a ruling by a federal appeals court that allowed a lawsuit brought by survivors of the Hungarian Holocaust to go forward. The survivors contended that their claims fell within an exception to the general presumption that foreign governments cannot be sued in U.S. courts because Hungary and its national railway confiscated their property, sold it, and mixed it with their other funds to do business in and with the United States. … Read the rest