De Aliaga v. Spain

(1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit"s decision allowing Spain to claim sovereign immunity with regard to private commercial cargo lost from a Spanish ship destroys federal court jurisdiction over all maritime salvage from beneath international waters; (2) whether the Eleventh Circuit"s conclusion contradicts this Court"s decisions in California v. Deep Sea Research, Inc., Compania Espanola De Navegacion Maritima, S. A. v. The Navemar, The Pesaro, The Davis, The Siren, and United States v. Peters; and (3) whether the Eleventh Circuit"s conclusion works to fundamentally change the boundaries of "commercial activity" and the "private transaction exception" within the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and conflicts with this Court"s holdings in Republic of Argentina v. Weltover and United States v. Planters Bank of Georgia.