Antidumping. Eighth Circuit affirms $35 million antidumping award against Japanese printing press manufacturer.
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Arbitration Agreement. District court dismisses motion to confirm award because there was no "agreement in writing."
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Arbitration. Manifest Disregard. Eleventh Circuit refuses to vacate arbitration award under manifest disregard of the law standard and threatens sanctions in the future for parties seeking to vacate arbitration awards without a sound basis in law.
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Arbitration. Manifest Disregard. Fourth Circuit vacates district court refusal to vacate arbitration award where arbitrator unilaterally imposed limitations period not provided for in the applicable arbitration agreement and dismissed proceedings as untimely.
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Attachments in Aid of Admiralty Litigation. Ex parte maritime attachment order vacated upon Plaintiff's inability to show that the attachment was necessary to obtain jurisdiction or secure damages.
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Arbitration - Discovery Sanctions. Unauthorized Practice of Law. Massachusetts held that arbitration award could not be vacated based on out-of-state attorney's representation of party to arbitration proceeding or because monetary sanctions were awarded for failure to comply with discovery.
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Bankruptcy Code. Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities Act of 1933. SEC Rule 144A. U.S. Bankruptcy court holds that Argentine court may hold "fairness hearing" required under Section 3(a)(10) in a dispute between an Argentine cable company and holders of notes that the company issued in the United States.
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Choice of Law. Shipowner's limitation of liability for maritime incident deemed procedural rather than substantive and thus governed by U.S. law.
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Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Attachments in Aid of Admiralty Litigation. District Court determines that the FSIA did not apply to an entity that was neither created pursuant to an international agreement nor wholly owned by foreign sovereigns, and that Rule B attachments could be issued to aid in international admiralty litigation, provided that admiralty jurisdiction was proper.
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Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Only the sovereign itself can assert the immunity from attachment provided for under the FSIA.
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Forum Non Conveniens. District Court dismisses case against American manufacturers of blood-clotting products on grounds of forum non conveniens
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Forum Non Conveniens. Third Circuit holds that district court must ascertain status of personal jurisdiction before engaging in a forum non conveniens analysis in an international shipping dispute.
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Securities Law. District court dismisses for lack of subject matter jurisdiction that portion of the case in which there was no conduct in the U.S. and no substantial effect in the U.S.
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Securities Law. District court dismisses putative class action on grounds that federal securities laws did not apply extraterritorially to Plaintiffs' claims.
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Service of Process on a Foreign Corporation. New York district court dismisses complaint against certain Defendants based on insufficient service of process and lack of personal jurisdiction over Korean company.
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Trademark. Copyright. Injunction granted to prevent sale of U.S. products in Europe where products, as modified for the European market, were inferior to consumer expectations.
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Whistleblower Provision of Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Extraterritorial Application. First Circuit holds that Congress did not intend extraterritorial application of whistleblower protection provision contained in Title VIII, Section 806, of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.