D.C. Circuit· 7/31/2015

Devincci Hourani v. Alexander Mirtchev

Citations

418 U.S. App. D.C. 1
796 F.3d 1
2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 13342
2015 WL 4590324

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holding that a defamation lawsuit was barred because it could not be decided “without a court having to inquire into the legal validity or tortiousness” of statements on the Kazakh embassy website
holding ambassador’s statements constituted government action for purposes of act of state doctrine
\Adjudicating the lawfulness of those acts of a foreign sovereign that are subject to the United States' territorial jurisdiction ... is not an issue that the Constitution entirely forbids the judiciary to entertain.\
“Liudmila Kokorich cannot enforce 13 the arbitration provision in the DHIL Agreement for the same reasons that Mikhail Kokorich 14 cannot enforce that provision.”
a party challenging an arbitration agreement on unconscionability 8 grounds must do so specifically with respect to the delegation provision to resist enforcement 9 thereof
“The complaint claims that Mirtchev ‘published or caused these statements to be published,’ but it alleges no factual basis whatsoever for that charge.”

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Judges: Tatel, Millett, Pillard

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