Last Friday, Magistrate Judge Paul Kohler (District of Utah) granted a motion for alternative service of process, allowing ...

Over the past several months, three state appellate courts in the United States have examined whether a “talaq” divorce ...

This is just a reminder for those in the DC area that on Thursday and Friday the George Washington Law Review is hosting a ...

On its face, a choice-of-law clause selecting the laws of the United States (or a state within the United States) may seem irrelevant to whether a foreign nation has waived its sovereign immunity in U ...

On May 21, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Havana Docks, a U.S. company, may sue U.S. cruise lines under the Helms-Burton Act for using docks confiscated by the Cuban government in 1960. Title ...

In MCC-Marble Ceramic Center, Inc., v. Ceramica Nuova d’Agostino, S.p.A. (1998), the Eleventh Circuit held that the American parol evidence rule does not apply in cases governed by the U.N. Convention ...

Last week, in Kingdom of Spain v. Blasket Renewable Investments LLC, the Solicitor General (SG) weighed in on whether U.S. courts have jurisdiction to enforce arbitral awards arising from disputes ...

is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 There may yet be life in the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). The Ninth Circuit recently held, in Doe I v. Cisco Systems, Inc., that Chinese practitioners of Falun Gong ...

The threat to confiscate Russian assets is unprecedented for an additional reason: it involves assets of Russia’s central bank. To be sure, central bank assets have been the target of sanctions in ...

Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co. (Helmerich) is a U.S. company with a Venezuelan subsidiary (Helmerich (Venezuela)). Helmerich (Venezuela) provided services for Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A ...

The reach of U.S. law keeps changing. For decades—in fact, off and on for more than a century—U.S. courts have turned to the presumption against extraterritoriality to determine the geographic scope ...