State Immunity (See also PD 1445, Sec. 26)

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1. What does the restrictive doctrine call acts performed in a sovereign or governmental capacity?
2. The Republic sues a warehouse operator for unpaid rent from an ordinary proprietary lease. The operator asserts a count…
3. An assistant government lawyer writes that the Republic will waive immunity in a tort suit. No statute authorizes the s…
4. A foreign government operates an ordinary laundry service for paying civilian customers and sues a local distributor fo…
5. A complaint alleges that foreign military officers personally beat a civilian during an entirely private quarrel outsid…
6. The Republic initiates a suit to collect the price of goods sold in its proprietary business. The buyer counterclaims f…
7. A department’s lawyer signs a compromise letter purporting to waive the Republic’s immunity in an unrelated damages act…
8. A foreign government claims that acts jure imperii and jure gestionis mean the same thing because both may involve publ…