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CHINA NAT., ETC. v. M/V LAGO HUALAIHUE

Civ. No. T-80-1369.

504 F.Supp. 684 (1981)

CHINA NATIONAL CHEMICAL IMPORT & EXPORT CORP. and Peoples Insurance Company of China, Plaintiffs, v. M/V LAGO HUALAIHUE and Empresa Maritima del Estado (Chilean Government Merchant Marine), Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

January 6, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Dorsey, III, and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Md., and Gordon W. Paulsen and Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Richard R. Jackson, Jr., Donald C. Greenman and Ober, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore, Md., for defendants.

THOMSEN, Senior District Judge.

Defendants' motion to dismiss this case for lack of jurisdiction over the subject matter and over the defendants turns upon the proper construction of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (hereinafter FSIA), 28 U.S.C. § 1602 et seq., particularly § 1605(b), dealing with maritime claims against foreign states.

I.

Section 1605(b) provides:

1605. General exceptions to the jurisdictional immunity...

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