What is the initial burden of establishing that a foreign country is a foreign state?
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The following excerpt is from Packsys, S.A. de C.V. v. Exportadora de Sal, S.A. DE C.V., 899 F.3d 1081 (9th Cir. 2018):
A foreign defendant bears the initial burden to "make a prima facie case that it is a foreign state." Peterson v. Islamic Republic of Iran , 627 F.3d 1117, 1124 (9th Cir. 2010).3 "Once the court has
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