2. Federal law grants immunity from service of process to certain representatives of foreign governments, their families,
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2. Federal law grants immunity from service of process to certain representatives of foreign governments, their families, and members of their households. The scope of the immunity was at issue in KADIC v. KARADZIC, 70 F.3d 232 (2d Cir. 1995), an action by Croat and Muslim human rights victims against the self-announced president of the breakaway Bosnian Serb republic. Plaintiffs served defendant while he was in New York, and he claimed an official immunity. Whether immunity attached turned on two questions under the United Nations Headquarters Agreement: where defendant was served and whether he was a designated representative of the United Nations. Plaintiffs’ affidavits provided the following information about service:
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