Sentence examples for foreign tribunal from inspiring English sources

"These matters should not be decided by the World Bank's investor state arbitration tribunal or any other foreign tribunal".

At the same time, progress in communications and transportation has made the defense of a suit in a foreign tribunal less burdensome.

Atlantic Marine argues that § 1404(a) is not a suitable mechanism to enforce forum-selection clauses because that provision cannot provide for transfer when a forum-selection clause specifies a state or foreign tribunal, see Brief for Petitioner 18-19, and we agree with Atlantic Marine that the Court of Appeals failed to provide a sound answer to this problem.

However minimal the burden of defending in a foreign tribunal, a defendant may not be called upon to do so unless he has had the "minimal contacts" with that State that are a prerequisite to its exercise of power over him.

Even in the remote likelihood that an adverse judgment for complicity in international terrorism was entered against the United States by a foreign tribunal, it would be unenforceable.

We urge Congress to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership and call for a plan that would actually make a difference for wildlife and our natural heritage". "This trade agreement would allow foreign corporations to challenge our health, safety and environmental protections in a foreign tribunal outside our legal system, and it would weaken those bedrock safeguards in the United States.

Their bill encourages the United States to remain engaged while protecting American citizens and military people from politicized prosecution by the International Criminal Court or other foreign tribunals.

Whilst they are not foreign tribunals in their relations to the State courts, they are tribunals of a different sovereignty, exercising a distinct and independent jurisdiction, and are bound to give to the judgments of the State courts only the same faith and credit which the courts of another State are bound to give to them.

The decision supplies corporations with yet another reason to take two prudent governance steps: (1) to document board actions with care (to avoid intrusive inspection requests from stockholders), and (2) to consider adopting forum-selection bylaws (to avoid the obligation to produce documents for use in foreign tribunals).

Prior to entering private practice, Van Schaack was Acting Executive Director and Staff Attorney with The Center for Justice & Accountability, a non-profit law firm in San Francisco dedicated to the representation of victims of torture and other grave human rights abuses in U.S., international, and foreign tribunals.

This article will review third-party discovery under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and the provisions of the US Code s.1782 that authorise US courts to act in aid of actions before foreign tribunals.