The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has overturned a trial court judgment directing Russia to pay over $175 million in accrued sanctions for the alleged theft of religious property. Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan, writing for the D.C. Circuit, stated that the nonprofit Chabad religious corporation cannot collect monetary sanctions from Russia under the “expropriation exception” to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. For more details, you can read the full article here.