Legal Opinion
Commissions Import Export S.A. v. Republic of the Congo
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 11, 2014No. 13-7004PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge ROGERS.
ROGERS, Circuit Judge:
Commissions Import Export S.A. (“the Company”) prevailed in 2000 in an arbitration in Paris, France against the Republic of the Congo and Caisse Congolaise d’Amortissement (collectively “the Congo”). For over eight years, the Company sought with little success to collect on the arbitral award pursuant, in part, to an international treaty known as the New York Convention. After obtaining a judgment in 2009 from a court in England enforcing the arbitral award, the Company sued in the United States to enforce the foreign…
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