Last Friday, Magistrate Judge Paul Kohler (District of Utah) granted a motion for alternative service of process, allowing ...

Over the past several months, three state appellate courts in the United States have examined whether a “talaq” divorce ...

On its face, a choice-of-law clause selecting the laws of the United States (or a state within the United States) may seem irrelevant to whether a foreign nation has waived its sovereign immunity in U ...

This is just a reminder for those in the DC area that on Thursday and Friday the George Washington Law Review is hosting a ...

When Boulder filed its lawsuit in state court back in 2018, the defendants removed the case to federal court. The district court rejected all of the defendants’ proffered grounds for removal, and the ...

Two new cases have been filed seeking the return of artwork that was taken from Jewish people during the Nazi era. Both cases were brought under a 2024 California law, Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 338.2, ...

Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), the agencies and instrumentalities of foreign states are generally immune ...

Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), the agencies and instrumentalities of foreign states are generally immune from suit in U.S. courts unless one of the FSIA’s exceptions applies. But ...