Legal Opinion
Commissions Import Export S.A. v. Republic of the Congo
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided January 8, 2013No. Civil Action No. 2012-0743PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff Commissions Import Export (“Commisimpex”) has uncovered a procedural loophole in Chapter 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA Ch. 2”), 9 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq. Its attempt to exploit this loophole raises a question of first impression in this Circuit: whether FAA Ch. 2’s three-year statute of limitations on confirmation actions for foreign arbitral awards, 9 U.S.C. § 207, preempts a plaintiff from using the District of Columbia’s Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act (“D.C. Recognition Act”), D.C. Code §§ 15-361 et…
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