Legal Opinion
Interpetrol Bermuda Ltd. v. Trinidad & Tobago Oil Co.
New York Supreme Court
Decided February 5, 1987PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Kristin Booth Glen, J.
This case presents an issue of first impression whose resolution requires consideration of both the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (28 USC § 1602 et seq.) (the FSIA) and New York statutory scheme concerning prejudgment attachments (CPLR 6201 et seq.). The question, put most simply, is whether the postattachment nationalization of a defendant and its property requires, as a matter of statutorily created sovereign immunity, the denial of the plaintiff’s motion for an increased attachment and/or the vacating of the prior attachment. For the reasons…
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