WHERE A PARTY SEEKS EVIDENCE UNDER SECTION 1782 FOR USE IN A FOREIGN PROCEEDING, ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ADDRESSES JURISDICTIONAL ISSUE--HERE, APPELLANT DID NOT APPEAL THE DISTRICT COURT'...

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CONSIDERING CHALLENGES TO DEFAULT JUDGMENTS HOLDING SUDAN LIABLE FOR THE INJURIES SUFFERED BY VICTIMS OF THE 1998 AL QAEDA EMBASSY BOMBINGS IN KENYA AND TANZANIA, DISTRICT OF COLUM...

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NINTH CIRCUIT REVIEWS REQUEST FOR DECLARATORY JUDGMENT BY THE REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS THAT THE UNITED STATES IS IN BREACH OF ITS TREATY OBLIGATIONS; COURT FINDS DISPUTE NO...

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WHERE ICSID PANEL ISSUED AN AWARD AGAINST VENEZUELA AND CREDITORS BROUGHT EX PARTE ACTION FOR RECOGNITION OF AWARD UNDER NEW YORK LAW, FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT DENIED VENEZUELA'S SUBSEQUENT MOTION TO VACATE JUDGMENT; SECOND CIRCUIT REVERSES BECAUSE FSIA IS THE SOLE BASIS FOR FEDERAL COURT JURISDICTION OVER FOREIGN SOVEREIGNS IN ACTIONS TO ENFORCE ICSID AWARDS

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Where U.S. parties were injured by ammunition manufactured in Argentina, Sixth Circuit reviews application of FSIA "commercial activity" exception

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Ninth Circuit reviews case of 10 American citizens who are trying to collect on their judgments against Iran for their terrorism-related injuries

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In a case involving a Colombian conspiracy to import thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the U.S., Fifth Circuit ponders whether criminal statutes apply extraterritorially

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In matter of first impression, Second Circuit reviews activities of sovereign wealth fund of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and ponders whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act im...

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JURISDICTION

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE/MILITARY JUSTICE (EXTRATERRITORIAL)

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Arbitration

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District of Columbia remands case about disputed property looted during Holocaust in Hungary; Congress enacted Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016 during the pendency o...

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In civilians' claims for damages after drone strike in Yemen, District of Columbia Circuit affirms dismissal of case on Political Question grounds

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District of Columbia Circuit affirms dismissal of lawsuit by Indian nationals who claim to be beneficiaries of social and environmental terms of contract of International Finance Corporation (IFC) with large Indian company

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In action under Federal Tort Claims Act where US State Department employee suffered injuries in Haiti, District Of Columbia Circuit Affirms Dismissal of lawsuit

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In Case of Claims for Damages by Persons Affected by Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Incident in Japan, Ninth Circuit Reviews Denial of Motion to Dismiss on Grounds of International Comity, Forum Non Conveniens, the Political Question Doctrine, and the Firefighter's Rule

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In challenges to Executive Order No. 13780, Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, U.S. Supreme Court grants writ of certiorari

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Supreme Court vacated judgment of court of appeals and remanded case for further proceedings consistent with its opinion that non-frivolous argument is not sufficient for expropria...

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New York convention article v(2)(b). United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit upholds decision of United States District Court for the District of Columbia rega...

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Fifth Circuit upheld judgment of united states district court for the southern district of Texas. Fifth circuit held that the district court's grant of summary judgment on the ATS and TVPRA claims in favor of defendant was proper and that the district court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing the common law claims by refusing to equitably toll plaintiffs' state law tort claims

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