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Member State
Italy
Themes
Type of document
Jurisprudence
Permanent link to the contribution
http://www.cahdidatabases.coe.int/C/Immunities/Italy/1971/135
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Database of the CAHDI "The immunities of States and international organisations" - contribution of Italy - Jurisprudence of 25/11/1971

De Ritis (individual) v. Government of the United States of America (State)

Author(ity)

Supreme Court of Cassation

Date of the decision, of the judgment

25/11/1971

Points of law

The decision admits the immunity from civil jurisdiction only for foreign States when they act as sovereign bodies and not when they act as private subjects.

Summary of the case

The United State Information Agency, which is part of United States Information Service (U.S.I.S.), is a US government agency performing public functions abroad. A dispute involving an employee working for the U.S.I.S. library in Naples falls therefore outside the Italian jurisdiction.

Sources

Italian Yearbook of International Law, 1975, 235

Additional information (explanations, notes, etc.)

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