Raphael Bigio, Bahia Bigio, Ferial Salma Bigio and B. Bigio & Co. v. The Coca-Cola Company and the Coca-Cola Export Company

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• suggesting that existence of alternate fora and defendant’s amenability to suit in foreign jurisdiction should be considered in comity analysis
• deciding a conversion claim was not subject to the local action doctrine
• deciding a conversion claim was not subject to the local action doctrine
• declining to apply the act of state doctrine where the act in question occurred thirty-four years prior to the suit and under the government of a dictator who had been dead for thirty years
• declining to apply the act of state doctrine where the act in question occurred thirty-four years prior to the suit and under the government of a dictator who had been dead for thirty years
• “The decision whether to dismiss a case on international comity grounds ordinarily lies within the discretion of the district court”

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