Board of Supervisors v. NKF Engineering, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Belize’s forum non conveniens argument is “squarely foreclosed by our precedent”
• finding FNC argument “squarely foreclosed by our precedent” because “[i]n [TMR Energy], we held that the doctrine of forum non conveniens does not apply to actions in the United States to enforce arbitral awards against foreign nations”
• “Secondary jurisdictions may refuse to enforce an award, but these decisions do not preclude other jurisdictions from enforcing it.”
• “The New York Convention is exactly the sort of treaty Congress intended to include in the arbitration exception.” (quoting Creighton Ltd. v. Gov’t of the State of Qatar, 181 F.3d 118, 121 (D.C. Cir. 1999))
• rejecting forum non conveniens defense in foreign arbitral award case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).