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Neil McDougall v. Saudi Arabian Oil Company, dba Saudi Aramco
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 25-10619 · judgment April 2, 2026
(petition-stage, structural)
Well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether a plaintiff who sues an undisputed foreign-state defendant under the FSIA must plead that a domestic subsidiary through which the defendant allegedly acted also qualifies as a foreign state before a court may consider the statutory exceptions in 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2) and § 1605(a)(3)?
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Whether the courts below properly dismissed McDougall’s FSIA expropriation theory at the pleading stage after treating employment documents, rather than McDougall’s pleaded legal claims for earned benefits, as the property allegedly taken?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Warren V. Norred
Norred Law, PLLC
For respondent
Carolyn Beth Lamm
White & Case LLP
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Aug 26 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Aug 18 2026Waiver of right of respondent Saudi Arabian Oil Company to respond filed.
- Jul 01 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 24, 2026)