Rough & Ready Lumber Co. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• discussing international abstention and explaining that comity case law considers, among other things, whether the foreign judgment is prejudicial, in the sense of violating American public policy because it is repugnant to fundamental principles of what is decent and just
• “[A]t this stage of the litigation, the appropriate resolution is a stay rather than a dismissal of the American action.”
• “In this case, neither party has argued that the Belizean judgments were rendered via fraud or that the Belizean proceedings lacked any element of civilized jurisprudence.”
• “In this case, neither party has argued that the Belizean judgments were rendered via fraud or that the Belizean proceedings lacked any element of civilized jurisprudence.”
• describ- ing “whether the judgment was rendered via fraud” as one of several “[g]eneral comity concerns”
• describ- ing “whether the judgment was rendered via fraud” as one of several “[g]eneral comity concerns”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).