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Full Faith and Credit for Judgments Recognizing Judgments?
Bill Dodge has a new post about the interesting and longstanding question of how a US court should treat the judgment of a sister-state court recognizing a foreign country judgment. Everyone agrees that the foreign country judgment is not itself entitled to full faith and credit. But is a US judgment recognizing the foreign country……
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The Case of the Bhutanese Air Conditioner
The New York Times reported on the story of the New Yorkers who live in an apartment building near the United Nations. Their building is next-door to Bhutan’s permanent mission to the UN. According to the neighbors, Bhutan keeps a “vexingly loud air-conditioning unit on the roof of the building.” So far, they haven’t had……
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Sophie Turner v. Joe Jonas: A High-Profile Abduction Convention Case
The BBC has reported that the actress, Sophie Turner, has filed a petition under the Hague Abduction Convention for the return of her children to the UK. Her husband, the singer Joe Jonas, recently filed a divorce petition in Florida, and Turner filed the new petition in New York. The basic scheme of the Abduction……
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Let’s Meet Up In Paris!
Readers, I will be attending the IBA’s Annual Conference in Paris from October 29 to November 3. If you will be in Paris, and you would like to meet, please let me know. There are many interesting-sounding programs during the conference, but as with all such events, the best part is meeting up with colleagues……
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China Amends Its Foreign Sovereign Immunity Law
Bill Dodge has an excellent post at the Transnational Litigation Blog explaining China’s new Foreign State Immunity Law, which adopts the restrictive theory of foreign sovereign immunity. The United States and many other countries follow the restrictive theory, but China, until now, had been one of the holdouts for the older absolute theory of foreign……