what was the purpose of the us sovereign immunity act
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA) is the primary means for bringing a lawsuit against a foreign sovereign or its agencies and instrumentalities. The act establishes certain procedures that must be followed when suing a foreign sovereign and attaching property for international debt recovery purposes.t is customary international law that one foreign state is immune from the jurisdiction of the courts of another foreign state. Until recently there were few exceptions to this rule of sovereign immunity.