Marlowe v. Argentine Naval Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• waiver found where contract stated it would be governed by laws of District of Columbia
• “[I]f the parties to a contract agree that the laws of one country will govern contractual interpretations, they have implicitly waived the defense of sovereign immunity.”
• “All notices, requests, demands, or other communications to or upon the respective parties hereto shall be deemed to have been given or made when deposited in the mail, postage prepaid _”
• FSIA does not require \express and unambiguous consent\ to jurisdiction
• special arrangement was reached under FSIA by inclusion of provision that “[a]ll notices, requests, demands, or other communications . . . shall be deemed to have been given or made when deposited in the mail . . .”
• using \substantial compliance\ test under 1608(a)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).