While Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit against the Chinese government and several other Chinese entities, what comes next is complicated, and experts said it\u2019s unlikely the state will ever collect any money from the suit.<\/p>\n
The attorney general, through his Deputy Justin Smith, asked a federal judge in St. Louis for punitive and actual damages among other relief in a court filing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Problematically for the state, foreign governments generally enjoy \u201csovereign immunity\u201d in U.S. courts, meaning they can\u2019t be sued. However, according to multiple professors who interviewed with News-Press NOW on Thursday, the state\u2019s position can\u2019t necessarily be shrugged off as a political stunt.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think China will show up,\u201d David Tushaus, a º¬Ðß²ÝÉçÇø professor, said. \u201cI don\u2019t argue with the facts in the lawsuit. And that\u2019s really not the point I\u2019m making. The point I\u2019m making is you got to have jurisdiction. First, you have to have personal jurisdiction, subject matter jurisdiction.\u201d<\/p>\n