Belize Social Development Ltd. v. Government of Belize

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “taxes Belize levies against a company . . . have a connection with commerce . . . as do the duties Belize charges”
• concluding that the “provision of 29 telecommunication services has an . . . obvious connection to commerce”
• explaining that “commercial” under the New York Convention means to “have a connection to commerce”
• explaining that “[f]or most signatories, the New York Convention applies to all private arbitral agreements, regardless of the subject matter. The United States, however, made a declaration, authorized by Article I(3
• defining commercial as “matters or relationships, whether contractual or not, that arise out of or in connection with commerce”
• stating contract signatory must have authority to enter into agreement under the arbitration exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(6)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).