Aspinall's Club Ltd. v. Aryeh

OPINION OF THE COURT

Thompson, J.

In 1967 the United States ratified a convention designed to facilitate the service of process and other documents in civil and commercial disputes among private litigants from different countries. The convention, called the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents (in Civil or Commercial Matters) (the Convention), went into effect in 1969. (20 US Treaties & Other Int Agreements 361, TIAS 6638.) Some 20 nations, including the United States and the United Kingdom, have ratified the Convention. Several other countries are…