Opinion ID: 45549
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The FSIA Allows Rights Without Remedies

Text: 37 Because we base our holding on the FSIA, we need not reach other issues raised by the parties. 9 We note, however, an error in the district court's reasoning so that future courts will not repeat it. In granting the contempt order, the district court reasoned that Congress must have intended to authorize money sanctions against foreign states when it authorized the issuance of injunctive relief against them. That reasoning is flawed. Under the FSIA, a court's power to make an order does not always entail a power of enforcement by sanctions. See De Letelier v. Republic of Chile, 748 F.2d 790, 798-99 (2d Cir.1984) (rejecting the argument that Congress could not have intended in the FSIA to create a right without a remedy).