GUEVARA v. REPUBLIC OF PERU

No. 05-16235.

468 F.3d 1289 (2006)

Jose GUEVARA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. REPUBLIC OF PERU, Ministerio Del Interior, Antonio Ketin Vidal, Fernando Rospigliosi, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

November 1, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew Kennedy, Boca Raton, FL, Carlos Fernando Gonzalez, Diaz, Reus, Rolff & Targ, LLP, Miami, FL, for Guevara.

Gustavo Gutierrez, Miami, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, CARNES and HILL, Circuit Judges.


CARNES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the issue of whether a foreign state's offer of a reward in return for information enabling it to locate and capture a fugitive falls within the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's commercial activity exception to sovereign immunity. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that it does.

I.

Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos Torres served as an advisor to Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and as the head of Peru...

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