Banque Libanaise Pour Le Commerce v. Hanna Elias Khreich

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing for abuse of discretion a trial court's choice to apply a discretionary nonrecognition ground, like the ground at issue in this case
• applying law of forum on grounds that plaintiff failed to carry burden of proof on foreign law
• “Historically foreign country judgments have not been entitled to full faith and credit, but only to comity.”
• the party seeking to rely on foreign law must provide “clear proof of the relevant . . . legal principles” to the trial court, even though the issue is reviewed as a question of law on appeal
• applying Texas law to reject enforcement of Abu Dhabi judgment

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