D.D.C. No. 24-cv-02523Confirmed
UPDATE: Papers in Watch Tower's revived suit over Russia's seizure of its St Petersburg headquarters sent to State Department for diplomatic service
A federal judge in Washington threw the case out in September 2025 because the lawsuit papers had never been validly delivered. On 23 July 2026 he undid that dismissal and gave the Jehovah's Witnesses' Pennsylvania corporation 180 days to serve the defendants again, this time through the State Department. On 12 August the court clerk sent the papers to the State Department to pass on. As of the docket reviewed on 21 October, the court has decided nothing about whether a U.S. court can hear the claim at all.