Canada Won’t Get 1st Cir. Rehearing in Workers’ Compensation Row

Canada won’t get rehearing of a ruling that it must defend from a workers’ compensation lawsuit brought by a U.S. citizen it employed in its Boston consulate, the First Circuit said Oct. 23.

Chief Judge Jeffrey R. Howard and Judge Sandra L. Lynch regretted the denial to rehear the case and urged the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review “in this important case about the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.”

A three-judge panel June 10 held that Canada isn’t immune from the worker’s lawsuit under the FSIA’s commercial activity exception.

The panel rejected Canada’s argument that it wasn’t subject to the ...