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Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Who Has Authority? Risks in Signing Contracts with Foreign Sovereigns

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Imagine your client, a real property owner, asks you to draft an enforceable agreement with the owner of the neighboring property. It seems relatively easy, right? Well, no, not if the neighboring property is owned by a...more

Jones Day

PTAB Revokes Filing Privileges For Repeated Rules Violations

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In September 2017, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe moved to dismiss six instituted trials on petitions filed by Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. Those petitions challenged six patents that, at the time the petitions were filed, belonged...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Skeptical St. Regis Mohawk Tribe Requests Discovery Regarding Panel Selection Circumstances

The creation of adversarial procedures before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (post-grant review, inter partes review, and covered business methods review) has raised a number of...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Argentina Ruling Doesn't Address Non-FSIA Discovery Limits

In its latest decision interpreting the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), the U.S. Supreme Court made clear that any claim of immunity by a foreign state must rise or fall based on the text of the FSIA. Because the...more

King & Spalding

U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Clarify Post-Judgment Remedies Against Foreign Sovereigns

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On June 16, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two decisions in Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd., one of the many cases to have arisen out of Argentina’s 2001 default on over $100 billion in sovereign bonds. While...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd.

On June 16, 2014, the United States Supreme Court held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) does not prevent a judgment creditor from conducting postjudgment discovery into a foreign sovereign's assets outside the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Supreme Court Holds that the FSIA Does Not Limit Post-Judgment Discovery

In its latest decision interpreting the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), the Supreme Court made clear that any claim of immunity by a foreign state must rise or fall based on the text of the FSIA. Because the FSIA...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Argentina's financial fate now depends on the U.S. Supreme Court

The Second Circuit has affirmed the injunctions against Argentina in NML Capital, Ltd. v. Republic of Argentina, a case that we have been following in this blog although the amended injunctions shall be stayed pending the...more

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