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Cite as:  596 U. S. ____ (2022) 

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Opinion of the Court 

conflict over its rightful owner has been vexed.  A foreign
state or instrumentality in an FSIA suit is liable just as a 
private party would be.  See §1606.  That means the stand-
ard  choice-of-law  rule  must  apply.    In  a  property-law  dis-
pute like this one, that standard rule is the forum State’s
(here, California’s)—not any deriving from federal common
law. 

Accordingly, the judgment of the Court of Appeals for the 
Ninth Circuit is vacated, and the case is remanded for fur-
ther proceedings consistent with this opinion. 

It is so ordered.