Bridas S.A.P.I.C. v. Government of Turkmenistan

How courts have described this case

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

• corporation that was foreign state’s alter ego could bind non-signatory foreign state to arbitration agreement
• “Unlike the theory of agency, which interprets a contractual relationship, alter ego examines the actual conduct of the parent vis-á-vis its subsidiary.”
• imposition of export ban was exercise of sovereign powers that may have constituted a wrong to plaintiff, but “was not a wrong based on misuse of the corporate organizational form”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).