Southern v. Southern

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that res judicata required dismissal of certain claims because the Second Circuit had addressed them in a summary order, which constituted an adjudication on the merits
• explaining that 15 U.S.C. § 1114(1) “provides a cause of action for owners of registered trademarks”
• explaining that if the analogous statute of limitations has not run, the defendant bears the burden of proving the defense; if it has run, the plaintiff bears the burden to show why laches should not apply
• “Even if the act of state doctrine is subject to a commercial exception, the exception would not apply.”
• “Nevertheless, ‘courts will not extend comity to foreign proceedings when doing so would be contrary to the policies or prejudicial to the interests of the United States.’ ” (quoting Pravin, 109 F.3d at 854)
• “The declaration of a United States court that the executive branch of the Russian government violated its own law ... would be an affront to the government of a foreign sovereign.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).