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Joseph v. Office of the Consulate General of Nigeria and Others

485 State immunity — Jurisdictional immunity — Whether presumption of sovereign immunity — Commercial activity exception — Distinction between sovereign and commercial acts — Lack of profit motive — Nigerian Consulate — Agreement to lease property as a residence for consular employees — Whether constituting a commercial activity — Non-commercial tort exception — Torts allegedly committed by consular employee causing damage to consular residence — Requirement that torts were committed within “scope of employment” — Requirement that torts not committed by foreign State in the exercise of discret…