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Case Summaries
Anti-Suit Injunction. Southern District of New York enjoins party to arbitration agreement and its parent companies from participating in foreign litigation.
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Anti-Suit Injunction. Southern District of New York issues injunction barring foreign action to enjoin distribution of the amount collected in satisfaction of New York judgment.
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Attachment of Funds. Southern District of New York permits attachment of electronic funds Defendant claims were property of customers.
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Disclosure. Deposition by Video Conference. New York State Supreme Court grants motion for a protective order requiring Defendants to take the deposition of Plaintiff, residing in Morocco, by video conferencing where Plaintiff could not secure a visa to travel to New York.
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Discovery. Conflicts of Laws. Foreign Blocking Statutes. Southern District of New York authorizes discovery claimed to be blocked by Cayman Islands statute.
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Discovery. Foreign Blocking Statutes. Southern District of New York orders Defendant bank to disclose information located outside of the United States that was protected by foreign bank secrecy laws.
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Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Entitlement to Non-Jury Trial. Seventh Circuit holds that compelling a sovereign to submit to jury trial does not constitute irreparable harm because of right to appeal and the remedy of a new trial.
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Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Ninth Circuit holds that foreign state property must be used for commercial purposes in the United States to be subject to attachment.
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Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Second Circuit finds that assets contained in the account of the Argentine central bank at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York were protected from attachment by the FSIA and commercial activity exception was inapplicable.
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Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Second Circuit holds that financial supervisory organization is qualified as agent or instrumentality of foreign state and can claim sovereign immunity.
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Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Terrorism Risk Insurance Act. Southern District of New York holds that TRIA allows execution of judgment against designated terrorist state over blocked assets of its juridically separate agencies.
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Forum Non Conveniens. Supreme Court holds that federal courts do not have to establish jurisdiction before dismissing for forum non conveniens.
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Forum Selection Clause. Seventh Circuit upholds forum selection clause requiring U.S. Plaintiff to sue in Japan in connection with U.S. joint venture.
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International Trade Law. Binational Panel System. D.C. Circuit finds lack of jurisdiction to hear a constitutional challenge to the binational panel review provisions of the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1988 and the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1993.
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Personal Jurisdiction. District of Massachusetts rules that case could not have been brought under Florida's Long-Arm Statute because German corporation did not have sufficient contacts with Florida and did not exercise sufficient control over separate corporation in order to establish specific or general jurisdiction.
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Personal Jurisdiction and Forum Non Conveniens. Northern District of Illinois Bankruptcy Court exercises personal jurisdiction over foreign members of LLC, holding that the company's contacts with the forum were attributable to the foreign members.
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Personal Jurisdiction and Forum Non Conveniens. Southern District of New York asserts personal jurisdiction and denies forum non conveniens motion where parties conducted business in New York.
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28 U.S.C. Section 1782. Discovery in aid of foreign proceedings permitted when an adjudicative proceeding is within "reasonable contemplation."
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28 U.S.C. Section 1782. Discovery in Aid of Foreign Proceedings. Northern District of Illinois holds that materials sought need not be discoverable or admissible in foreign tribunal to be discoverable under Section 1782.
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