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4 Mar 2009, 6:30 am
The Virginia Supreme Court reversed circuit court sustaining a demurrer, because "the negligence underlying the bank's claim was malfeasance of a ministerial duty and ther cloak of sovereign immunity does not cover such torts. [read post]
21 Apr 2014, 11:44 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
[transcript, PDF] the court heard arguments on whether a hedge fund could subpoena banks for information about Argentina's non-US assets following the country's default on $100 billion in sovereign debt in 2002. [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 9:30 am by Brian Citro
Before entering law school, Clara served as a Junior Professional Associate with the World Bank’s Environment Department and African Human Development Department, working on the bank’s legal policies on the environment and indigenous peoples, and implementing development projects in Africa. [read post]
16 Jun 2014, 11:59 am
The Second Circuit affirmed, holding that “because the Discovery Order involves discovery, not attachment of sovereign property, and because it is directed at third-party banks, not at Argentina itself, Argentina’s sovereign immunity is not infringed. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 8:01 am
Banks, sovereign wealth funds and state owned enterprises represent some of the greatest economic forces underlying the global system of production at the heart of the structural framework of the Guiding Principles. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 10:00 pm by Fred Abrams
  The Lebanese minister's letter stated:   "That decision, which is dated July 12, 2010, violates principles of mutual respect for the laws of sovereign nations and puts a commercial enterprise in a untenable position of having to choose between breaking the laws of our Republic where it operates and being subject to severe sanctions in a courthouse in the United States for doing so. [read post]
5 Mar 2008, 4:04 pm
  The usual investments by SWFs in stocks, bonds, bank deposits, and government obligations are exempt from tax. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 10:29 am by Naomi Roht-Arriaza
   Sovereign wealth funds and Chinese and Brazilian development banks now provide alternative sources of development project finance, often without any environmental or human rights strings attached. [read post]
13 Oct 2017, 1:22 am by Jack Prettejohn and Imogen Garner
It urges the European Parliament and the Council to progress quickly in the adoption of measures to tackle remaining risks in the banking sector and suggests new actions to reduce non-performing loans and to help banks diversify their investment in sovereign bonds. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 5:56 pm
Chief Judge Lamberth discusses the means of piercing sovereign immunity in a ruling on motions by banks holding state-owned funds where the banks seek to interplead third parties with claims to bank-held funds that partially involve OFAC-blocked EFT transfers. [read post]
25 Jun 2012, 3:00 am by Louis M. Solomon
Tags: Sovereign Immunity, Sequencing Dispute Resolution, Adjudication, International Practice Related posts Strict Application of FSIA Requirements and “Separate Entity” Rule for Banks Determine Priority in Disputed International Litigation Over Blocked Iranian Assets (0) Second Circuit, Sharing District Court’s “Irritation” at Argentina’s Refusal To Pay Its Creditors, Nonetheless Finds Central Banking Assets Immune from Attachment… [read post]
6 Aug 2018, 4:00 am by Elena Chachko, Amichai Cohen
Therefore, they maintained, the amendment would fix what, in their view, was a disparity between how land disputes in the West Bank have been adjudicated compared to land disputes within Israel’s sovereign territory, affording settlers the same level of access to courts that other Israeli citizens enjoy. [read post]
26 Apr 2016, 8:31 am by Yishai Schwartz
In 2001, the family member of many of these soldiers filed suit against the Iranian government in federal court under the “terrorism exception” to foreign sovereign immunity. [read post]
25 Jan 2019, 7:01 am by Peter D. Hardy and Marjorie J. Peerce
  However, when a cryptocurrency transaction does include sovereign currency, it may be money transmission depending on how the sovereign currency is handled. [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 6:57 am by Simon Lovegrove (UK)
(v) To ensure UKIB maintains the UK government’s credit rating, HMT intends to provide backing to UKIB such that rating agencies would consider it to have a sovereign credit rating. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 7:14 am by Peter
Listen to left-lurching tax law professor and tax blogger Linda Beale wax indignant about Greece’s austerity program (emphasis is mine): The austerity demands, in order for a sovereign nation to pay back its debt to mostly big banks that lent money recklessly in the leadup to the financial crisis, make no sense at all. [read post]