Norex decision, long in federal court, now dismissed by state court using borrowing statute to shorten applicable limitations period *

USA - October 24 2012
We have posted on the meanderings of the Norex case in federal court (e.g., here). 

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Court denies non-U.S. company’s attempt to avoid default, citing agency relationship between parent and sub justifying earlier exercise of jurisdiction over non-U.S. parent *

USA - September 4 2012
The drywall litigation, arising from the installation into U.S. homes of allegedly defective drywall from China, has included a great many noteworthy international practice issues.

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Topics and trends in international litigation *

USA - September 4 2012
The drywall litigation, arising from the installation into U.S. homes of allegedly defective drywall from China, has included a great many noteworthy international practice issues.

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New York’s highest court interprets both state and federal antitrust law and limits extraterritorial application *

USA - August 24 2012
Global Reinsurance Corp. v. Equitas Ltd., No. 53 (NY Ct. App. 2012), addresses the sufficiency and, more pertinent for our purposes, the extra-territorial reach of antitrust claims under New York’s antitrust statute, the Donnelly Act (NY Gen Bus. Law sec. 340, et seq.).

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Ninth Circuit reverses FSIA exception; no commercial activity in the U.S. in Iraq’s Oil For Food Program *

USA - August 21 2012
Terenkian v. Republic of Iraq, No. 10-56708 (9th Cir. 2012), addresses the important international practice question of whether activity by a non-U.S. sovereign satisfies the “commericial activity” exclusion to the application of the Foreign Sovereign Immunicties Act, thus permiting the federal courts to excercise subject matter jurisdiction over a matter.

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