A district court order holding the Cuban government liable for a $45 million judgment under a federal terrorism law was reversed and remanded by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Monday.

The panel ruled the April 2016 order and judgment of civil contempt issued by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Vera v. The Republic, 16-1227-cv, relied on a Florida state court’s erroneous interpretation of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976.