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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-699 Amaplat Mauritius Ltd., et al. v. Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-17 Pending Amici (1) arbitral-award circuit-split foreign-sovereign-immunities-act implied-waiver international-arbitration new-york-convention When a foreign sovereign that is a party to the New York Convention agrees to arbitrate a dispute governed by the Convention, does it impliedly waive …
25A334 Amaplat Mauritius Ltd., et al. v. Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-23 Presumed Complete arbitration enforcement-of-award foreign-sovereign-immunity new-york-convention sovereign-immunity waiver Question not identified.
24-532 Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Ltd. District of Columbia 2024-11-12 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived arbitration-agreement extratextual-context international-law new-york-convention sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation (1) Whether, for interpreting the intentions of the treaty parties regarding a word like "person," extratextual information such as historical context…
22-608 CVG Ferrominera Orinoco, C.A. v. Commodities & Minerals Enterprise Ltd. Second Circuit 2023-01-03 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sovereign-immunities-act new-york-convention public-policy service-of-process service-of-summons 1. Did the Second Circuit err in holding service of a Summons pursuant to Rule 4 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4, upon a pa…
22-6019 Richard Lee Green v. Dinh Hoang Phuong Ninth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitral-award federal-jurisdiction foreign-arbitration international-forum-shopping jurisdiction-abstention new-york-convention res-judicata younger-abstention younger-doctrine The Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards commonly referred to as The New York Convention 1958 Article III re…
22-280 Rashid A. Buttar v. Rachan Damidi Reddy Fourth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure district-court due-process new-york-convention personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court of North Carolina had personal jurisdiction over Petitioner after Petitioner moved to another country and the contacts whic…
21-1335 Waleed Khalid Abu Al-Waleed Al Hood Al-Qarqani, et al. v. Saudi Arabian Oil Company Fifth Circuit 2022-04-07 Denied Response Waived arbitral-award arbitration cross-appeal foreign-sovereign-immunity jurisdictional-immunity new-york-convention sovereign-waiver united-nations-convention waiver 1. Whether a foreign sovereign or instrumentality of a state that is a signatory member of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement …
21-1153 Waleed Khalid Abu Al-Waleed Al Hood Al-Qarqani, et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitral-awards article-iii chapter-1 chapter-2 district-courts federal-arbitration-act foreign-arbitral-awards new-york-convention secondary-jurisdiction separability-doctrine 1. Whether Article III of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the "New York Convention") requires U.S. distr…
21-1097 Vinod Kumar Dahiya v. Neptune Shipmanagement Services, PTE, Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied arbitration-agreement compelled-arbitration foreign-arbitration foreign-award interlocutory-order judicial-review jurisdictional-defect new-york-convention preclusive-effect Relying on a minority view of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York Convention) definition of an arbi…
20-1032 Petrobras America Incorporated, et al. v. Vantage Deepwater Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived arbitral-award arbitration circuit-split de-novo-review enforcement international-conventions new-york-convention panama-convention public-policy standard-of-review The Panama Convention and the New York Convention authorize the courts of Contracti ng States to refuse enforcement of an arbitral award where enforce…
20-40 CATIC USA Incorporated v. Soaring Wind Energy, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied arbitral-award arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction commercial-arbitration due-process international-treaty jurisdiction new-york-convention us-activities us-citizens 1. The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, commonly referred to as the "New York Convention," is an internationa…
20-39 AVIC International Holding Corporation, et al. v. Soaring Wind Energy, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied arbitrability arbitral-panel-composition arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction due-process equality-of-treatment federal-arbitration-act new-york-convention non-signatory-challenge public-policy 1. Petitioners are foreign corporations that did not sign the arbitration agreement signed by an affiliated entity, did not consent to arbitration, an…
19-623 Shrinivas Sugandhalaya LLP v. Balkrishna Setty, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-15 GVR Relisted (2) arbitration-agreement civil-procedure equitable-estoppel federal-arbitration-act foreign-arbitration foreign-arbitration-agreement foreign-defendant new-york-convention nonsignatory standing stay-litigation 1. Does the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the "New York Convention") permit a nonsignatory to an arbitrati…
19-606 Ukraine v. Pao Tatneft District of Columbia 2019-11-12 Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-enforcement arbitration-exception foreign-sovereign-immunity international-arbitration new-york-convention sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-exception Whether the D.C. Circuit correctly held that: (1) all 160 signatories to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards …
19-301 Republic of Kazakhstan v. Anatolie Stati, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure confirmation-proceeding due-process foreign-arbitral-award foreign-arbitral-awards foreign-sovereign-immunity fraud fraud-defense new-york-convention public-policy sovereign-immunity Exercising a right guaranteed to it by the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, th e Republic of Kazakhs…
19-117 Inversiones y Procesadora Tropical INPROTSA, S.A. v. Del Monte International GmbH Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied arbitral-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act new-york-convention subject-matter-jurisdiction vacatur vacatur-grounds 1. Whether Section 205 of the Federal Arbitration Act confers subject-matter jurisdiction over a petition to vacate an arbitral award rendered under t…
18-1048 GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS, Corp., fka Converteam SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-agreement circuit-split contract-law equitable-estoppel foreign-arbitral-awards international-arbitration new-york-convention non-signatory treaty-interpretation Whether the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the "New York Convention") permits a non-signatory to an arbitra…