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Second Circuit Affirms Confirmation of Arbitration Award Involving Dispute About Foreign Restaurant Franchises

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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a challenge to a confirmation of an arbitration award upholding the nonrenewal of a master franchise agreement for Subway restaurants....more

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U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Minimum Contacts for Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign States Under Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act...

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On June 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision requiring a plaintiff seeking to confirm an arbitration award against a foreign state to prove minimum contacts with the...more

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Supreme Court Rejects Minimum Contacts Requirement to Subject Foreign States to Suits in the U.S. Under FSIA

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On June 5, 2025, in a unanimous decision authored by Justice Alito, the United States Supreme Court held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. §§1330, 1602 et seq., does not require a plaintiff...more

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Singapore Court of Appeal Sets Out Framework for Infra Petita Challenges

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In the recent case of DKT v. DKU [2025] SGCA 23, the Singapore Court of Appeal has, noting its observation of an “increasing tendency for disgruntled award debtors to abuse this ground of challenge on wholly unmeritorious...more

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Fifth Circuit Reverses Decision Denying Motion to Compel International Arbitration

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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently reversed a district court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration, concluding that the contract between the parties evinced an intent to arbitrate even if the purported arbitral...more

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Subrogees Beware—You Can Be Compelled to Arbitrate as Third-Party Beneficiaries to an Arbitration Agreement

Cases requiring non-signatories to an arbitration agreement to arbitrate are not uncommon. Cases compelling subrogees to arbitrate, not because of an insurance policy but because of another contract, are less common. In...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

5th Circuit Rules Intent to Arbitrate Trumps Defunct Forum

The Fifth Circuit ruled that Baker Hughes Saudi Arabia and Dynamic Industries, Inc., could be compelled to arbitration in a forum that no longer exists. In doing so, the court ruled that the parties’ “dominant purpose was to...more

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Second Circuit Rejects Challenge to Arbitration Award

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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently rejected an attempt to vacate an arbitration award related to a maritime contract....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Second Circuit and New York Appellate Division Decisions Affirm Pro-Arbitration Policies

• In Deasang Corp. v. NutraSweet Co., the Appellate Division overturned a ruling by a lower court vacating an arbitral award on the ground that the arbitral panel manifestly disregarded the law. The Appellate Division...more

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Venezuela Mines for a Reversal in Federal Appeals Court

Venezuela is taking its fight over a $1.4 billion arbitral award to the District of Columbia’s federal court of appeals. The award capped a bitter dispute between Venezuela and Crystallex International Corporation, a...more

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