Muller v. United States of America

Abstract

State immunity — Jurisdictional immunity — Consular employee — National of receiving State employed as financial assistant — Dismissal — Claim for unlawful dismissal — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Whether assistant performing sovereign functions — Whether assistant integrated into organizational structure of consulate — Whether enquiry by municipal courts into lawfulness of dismissal would infringe sovereignty of foreign State

Consular relations — Consular employee — Financial assistant — Whether performing consular functions — Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963, Article 5 — Whether judicial enquiry into circumstances of dismissal would interfere with consular functions — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany