Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Choice of Law. Supreme Court reverses Ninth Circuit and holds that, in an FSIA suit raising non-federal claims against a foreign state or instrumentality, a court should determine the substantive law by using the same choice-of-law rule that would have been applicable in a similar suit against a private party.

This lawsuit concerned the ownership of an Impressionist painting: Camille Pissarro's Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain…

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