Lanny J. Davis & Associates LLC v. Republic of Equatorial Guinea

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding substantial-contact requirement was met in case involving breach of contract where “the majority of [plaintiff’s] work was performed here in Washington, D.C.” and foreign sovereign had participated in many meetings in the United States
• “Post-judgment interest is governed by federal law, even in a case in which a federal court hears only state-law claims.”
• Section 15–109 “does not preclude the court from including interest as an element of the damages awarded [i.e. pre-judgment interest], if necessary to compensate the plaintiff.” (cleaned up) (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “A trial court has wide discretion in awarding prejudgment interest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).