Quaak v. Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler Bedrijfsrevisoren

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a letter rogatory should not be issued because “Belgium is not a signatory to the Hague Convention”
• holding that courts must consider “the totality of the circumstances” and determine whether there is sufficient evidence to overcome a “rebutta-ble presumption” against international anti-suit injunctions
• noting that wooden and/or inflexible analysis should be avoided when determining whether to issue an antisuit injunction
• noting that only if the “gatekeeping inquiry” is met “should the court proceed to consider all the facts and circumstances in order to decide whether an injunction is proper”
• counseling district court that they “have no odligation to employ [the traditional four-part test]” when dealing with international antisuit injunctions
• acknowledging a federal court’s authority to enjoin a party appearing before it from prosecuting a case in a foreign tribunal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).