Commissions Import Export S.A. v. Republic of the Congo

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the U.S. joined the Convention “for the beneficial effects it [would] produce for the foreign commerce of the United States” (citation omitted)
• “Neither section 207 nor any other provision of Chapter 2 mentions foreign court judgments. Nor is there a reference to foreign court judgments in FAA Chapter 1, which has residual application.”
• “State courts have long recognized the conceptual difference between arbitral awards and foreign court judgments on arbitral awards . . . and treated foreign court judgments on awards as enforceable under state law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).