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Close on the Judiciary, Define Jurisdiction of U.S. Courts in Suits Against Foreign States, S. Rep. No. But see Joel R. Paul, The Transformation of International Comity, Law & Contemp. See GDG Acquisitions, LLC v. Govt of Belize, 749 F.3d 1024, 1034 (11th Cir. Close 174473. Posner & Sunstein, supra note 33, at 1177. 400 This Article aims to support the role of international comity in U.S. foreign relations law by providing a proper definition and analytic framework and by freeing international comity from some of the myths that have surrounded it. 120 Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino, 376 U.S. 398, 40809 (1964); see also The Sapphire, 78 U.S. (11 Wall.) + 289 368 ,.. Id. ); see also Holmes v. Remsen, 4 Johns. Close 52 78 542 U.S. 241, 25963 (2004) (rejecting foreign-discoverability rule). See N. Jansen Calamita, Rethinking Comity: Towards a Coherent Treatment of International Parallel Proceedings, 27 U. Pa. J. Intl Econ. <>>>/BBox[0 0 377.76 588]/Length 46>>stream Echoing Huber, Story began with three maxims: (1) that every nation possesses an exclusive sovereignty and jurisdiction within its own territory; xS**T0T0 BiU" Close, Comity came to America with the rest of English common law. 257 International law binds the United States on the international plane, endstream or the extraterritorial reach of domestic law. 150 2004) (noting decision whether to grant antisuit injunction must take account of considerations of international comity); Karaha Bodas Co. v. Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Negara, 335 F.3d 357, 366 (5th Cir. International Comity in Taxation Clyde J. Crobaugh Published 1 April 1923 Economics Journal of Political Economy The problem of international double taxation is one of the most serious questions that engages the attention of economists and financial experts at the present time. 101 (noting recognition of foreign law is founded on the mutual respect, comity and convenience of commercial nations); Blanchard v. Russell, 13 Mass. But whatever particular form a doctrine takes, it is a courts obligation to apply its requirements faithfully rather than treating international comity as a blank check for discretion, either by the court or by the executive branch. . endstream 313 [T]he argument for deference to the executive is that it has more expertise than the courts in foreign relations and that the executives accountability for foreign relations is more important than the courts independence from political pressure. But such references to the public interest in fostering friendly relations were rare during the nineteenth century, when the dominant rationale for comity was convenience, mostly conceived in terms of private interests. The problem was that some foreign states may be led to believe that since the decision can be made by the executive branch it should be strongly affected by foreign policy considerations and that these states were inclined to regard a decision by the State Department refusing to suggest immunity as a political decision unfavorable to them rather than a legal decision. 11-1479) (arguing State Department determinations of foreign official immunity are binding). . (quoting Colorado River, 424 U.S. at 817)). See Eric A. Posner & Cass R. Sunstein, Chevronizing Foreign Relations Law, 116 Yale L.J. . It is clear from Mr. Prochaska's insightful scholarship that a confluence of interests has played a major role in the comity between the two nations.-Martin Rubin, Wall Street Journal|9780300141955|, The Eagle and the Crown is a remarkably concise . xs 364 410 International comity . . Law Inst., Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments: Analysis and Proposed Federal Statute 7(a) (2006) (A foreign judgment shall not be recognized or enforced in a court in the United States if the court finds that comparable judgments of the courts in the United States would not be recognized or enforced in the courts of the state of origin.); see also John F. Coyle, Rethinking Judgments Reciprocity, 92 N.C. L. Rev. 2015) (Understood correctly, however, the prior opinion imposed an exhaustion requirement that limits where plaintiffs may assert their international law claims. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the world was understood to be divided into separate and independent states whose territorial sovereignty was deemed to be exclusive and absolute. 1782(a) (2012) (emphasis added). 252 Mar 6, 2013 (705 Phil. 2007) (equating deference suggested in Sosa with prudential justiciability doctrine known as the political question doctrine (internal quotation marks omitted)). See 1 L. Oppenheim, International Law: A Treatise 147, at 196 (1905) (Many States claim jurisdiction and threaten punishments for certain acts committed by a foreigner in foreign countries.); John B. Moore, Report on Extraterritorial Crime (1887), reprinted in 2 John Bassett Moore, A Digest of International Law 202, at 244 (1906) (The principle that a man who outside of a country willfully puts in motion a force to take effect in it is answerable at the place where the evil is done, is recognized in the criminal jurisprudence of all countries.). Allied Bank Intl v. Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago, 757 F.2d 516, 519 (2d Cir. Doctrines of prescriptive comity that federal courts use as principles of restraint apply only to federal statutes. See, e.g., Mannington Mills, Inc. v. Congoleum Corp., 595 F.2d 1287, 129798 (3d Cir. See W.S. But U.S. courts treat most of these discretionary grounds for nonrecognition as mandatory in practice. Paramedics Electromedicina Comercial, Ltda. Close 34 As the old, territorial conception of jurisdiction under international law receded, a comity-based presumption against extraterritoriality came forward to limit the territorial reach of American law. 182 Close 1350 (2012). 353 266 See id. 389, Sec. The discretion afforded under the public policy exception may also make conflicts approaches seem like standards, but this discretion is cabined by the requirement that the forums public policy be a strong one. 2015) (characterizing its holding as prudential exhaustion requirement based on international comity concerns). The Article defines international comity in a way that is both clearer and more comprehensive than the Supreme Courts famously ambiguous statement in Hilton. As the Second Circuit has observed, principles of comity counsel that injunctions restraining foreign litigation be used sparingly and granted only with care and great restraint. 45 169 252 [4] Taxation respects international comity. International comity c. Territoriality d. Tax minimization 3. Unif. See Aetna Life Ins. 78 endobj endobj endobj For example, Quackenbush v. Allstate Insurance Co. distinguished Burford abstention from forum non conveniens on the ground that abstention was concerned with comity and federalism, principles involving deference to the paramount interests of another sovereign, whereas the doctrine of forum non conveniens reflected a broader range of considerations, most notably the convenience to the parties. at 356. Law Inst. the Supreme Court recognized the authority of a federal court to dismiss a suit over which it had jurisdiction on grounds of forum non conveniens. 13 Despite its slippery definition of comity, x+ | 251 See, e.g., supra note 37 (surveying international comity scholarship). No. 52 Close 177 See Yousuf v. Samantar, 699 F.3d 763, 772 (4th Cir. 385 Federal courts also exercise adjudicative comity as a principle of recognition when they assist foreign courts with the discovery of evidence in the United States. Close w3TPI2T0 BC#=C3\. 387 at 13746 (discussing immunity of the sovereign, foreign ministers, and foreign troops). Close, As for foreign state immunity, the FSIA was passed in 1976 with the express purpose of shifting immunity determinations from the executive branch to the courts. Justice Story, also on circuit, wrote that Hubers doctrine has become incorporated into the code of national law in all civilized countries. See supra note 152 and accompanying text (explaining restraint was difficult to justify on basis of convenience). 132 But the distinction clarifies the respective roles of international comity and international law. 369, 370 n.* (1797) (providing translation of Huber). 175 244 Many are designed to mitigate the possibility of parallel proceedings, which the Supreme Courts expansion of personal jurisdiction in International Shoe made more likely. L-36081. . See Daimler, 134 S. Ct. at 750 (considering personal jurisdiction over claim brought by foreign plaintiffs against a foreign defendant based on events occurring entirely outside the United States); Goodyear, 131 S. Ct. at 2850 (considering personal jurisdiction in case involving bus accident outside Paris); J. McIntyre Mach., Ltd. v. Nicastro, 131 S. Ct. 2780, 2785 (2011) (plurality opinion) (Kennedy, J.) Even in this area, one encounters the occasional rule, such as the presumptive limitation of general jurisdiction over corporations to the place of incorporation and principal place of business. Daimler AG v. Bauman, 134 S. Ct. 746, 760 (2014). 1987) (This section states the principle of reasonableness as a rule of international law.). 244 Doctrines that defer to foreign lawmakers, like the conflict of laws, the act of state doctrine, and the presumption against extraterritoriality, are manifestations of prescriptive comity. . In the United States, Joseph Storys treatise on the conflict of laws made comity the foundation for recognizing foreign laws and judgments, but U.S. courts also looked to international comity as the basis for foreign sovereign immunity, the act of state doctrine, and the privilege of foreign governments to bring suit in the United States. Law Inst. The Transformation of International Comity Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a . and they continue to recognize foreign judgments not covered by the acts as a matter of comity. Close Foreign state compulsion similarly operates on a statute-by-statute basis, although its application may depend on the degree of compulsion and on the good faith of the party asking to be excused from U.S. law. Kirkpatrick & Co. v. Envtl. Hilton v. Guyot, 159 U.S. 113, 16364 (1895). 246 Like Huber, Story justified comity on the basis of mutual convenience and utility. These doctrines defer to foreign lawmakers by limiting the reach of U.S. laws and thus protecting against possible conflicts with foreign law. See 28 U.S.C. 379 (1985); Kathleen M. Sullivan, The Supreme Court, 1991 TermForeword: The Justices of Rules and Standards, 106 Harv. and deference to foreign governments as litigants is sovereign party comity. Huber, supra note 74, at 164; see also Story, supra note 54, 25, at 31 (No nation can. Each of these doctrines defers to foreign courts by restraining the exercise of U.S. courts jurisdiction. F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. v. Empagran S.A., 542 U.S. 155, 164 (2004) (Breyer, J.). Close 2008) (Comity remains the basis for recognizing foreign judgments not covered by the act. As noted above, Close. In some areas of foreign relations law, rules of international comity are layered on top of rules of international law. 19 Residence-based taxation . 50 0 obj 97 1998) (holding act of state doctrine did not apply to decree of unrecognized Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). Id. 394 As to the real estate, there is the following taxation scheme in Dubai, the UAE: when purchasing the immovable property in Dubai, the one-time cadastral tax in the amount of 4% of the purchase price of the property is charged. In the judgments context, the foreign tribunal has already made its decision. This tax is imposed both to buyer and seller, respectively, 2% and 2%. Answer: D. One of the following is not inherent limitations on the exercise of the power of taxation - a. 2006) (applying doctrine of international comity abstention). 26 247 Id. Rep. 99, 77 (Feb. 3) (finding international law required immunity for acta jure imperii committed by armed forces during armed conflict). Turner Entmt Co. v. Degeto Film GmbH, 25 F.3d 1512, 1518 (11th Cir. Thus, the Supreme Court properly rejected the U.S. governments argument in Kirkpatrick that the act of state doctrine should bar adjudication whenever the Executive determined that a case would cause too much embarrassment to a foreign government. See infra notes 361362, 393395 and accompanying text (discussing Posner and Sunsteins argument). 133 S. Ct. 1659, 1664 (2013) (quoting Arabian Am. 11, 51 (2010); see also Lawrence Collins, Comity in Modern Private International Law, in Reform and Development of Private International Law 89, 110 (James Fawcett ed., 2002) (The vast amount of material [on comity] cries out for some synthesis. It is something of an embarrassment for U.S. foreign relations law that so many of its doctrines depend on a principle that is poorly defined and arguably leads to unbounded discretion either by the courts or by the executive branch. By the general law of nations, no nation is bound to recognise the state of slavery, as to foreign slaves found within its territorial dominions, when it is in opposition to its own policy and institutions, Justice Story wrote in Prigg v. Pennsylvania. 287 endobj In Empagran, the Supreme Court invoked not the presumption against extraterritoriality but a principle of constru[ing] ambiguous statutes to avoid unreasonable interference with the sovereign authority of other nations, On the domestic plane, it is generally accepted today that Congress may pass statutes that violate customary international law or U.S. treaty obligations. 2012) (No. 250 endstream See Empagran, 542 U.S. at 168 ([T]his approach is too complex to prove workable.). Shangri-La International v. CA (Case Digest. But the Court also faulted the Ninth Circuit for ignoring the risks to international comity its expansive view of general jurisdiction posed. . Co. v. California, 509 U.S. 764, 817 (1993) (Scalia, J., dissenting) (defining prescriptive comity as respect sovereign nations afford each other by limiting the reach of their laws). 264, 404 (1821) (Marshall, C.J.) 250 2011) (noting foreign state compulsion doctrine acknowledges comity principles by accommodating the interests of equal sovereigns and giving due deference to the official acts of foreign governments); Trugman-Nash, Inc. v. N.Z. As a leading English writer explained, Dicey. Id. Close 48 382 415 The principle of comity is manifested in a large number of American doctrines that mediate the relationship between the U.S. legal system and those of other nations. H 35 285 1 Law Inst. would be better served if these questions of law and fact were decided by the courts rather than by the executive branch. . 198, 20102 (N.Y. 1918) (Cardozo, J.) Close See Huber, supra note 74, at 168 (stating comity applies equally to the subject of res judicata); see also id. k (Am. Close 33 0 obj Close Co. of Can. Close See Sitaraman & Wuerth, supra note 34, at 1943 ([T]he diplomatic contact between executive branch officials and their foreign counterparts is in some contexts a reason for courts not to defer because deference would mean that State Department officials might be held responsible for negative decisions or that they are lobbied heavily by foreign governments. 124 349 Deference to foreign lawmakers constitutes prescriptive comity, 2009) ([I]n the common-law context, we defer to the Executives determination of the scope of immunity.); see also Rosenberg v. Pasha, 577 F. Appx 22, 2324 (2d Cir. Close 93 Definition. But understanding the difference is critical to understanding how international comity works in American law. Close Def. 1987) ([T]here are no agreed principles governing recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, except that no state recognizes or enforces the judgment of another state rendered without jurisdiction over the judgment debtor.). Sg'G!};n$sqvf3b#&K>n dO=XqfjgU&XMyzkM 6Bt2!t 256 The Court has recognized exceptions for countries at war with the United States or not recognized by the United States. Id. 200 28 U.S.C. 285 1782(a)). This Articles definition of international comity differs from Hiltons in several respects. x+ | Close xs Definition 1 / 155 The State, having sovereignty can enforce contributions (tax) upon its citizens even without a specific provision in the Constitution authorizing it. endobj The court applied the Eleventh Circuits test from Ungaro-Benages, engrafting onto it the reasonableness factors for prescriptive comity articulated in section 403 of Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law and giving significant weight to the view of the U.S. executive branch that the case should be dismissed. 300 225 276 Close Co. of Can. Close Close Close. See Alan Watson, Joseph Story and the Comity of Errors 1844 (1992). H . It is an inherent attribute of sovereignty. 112 Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States 102(2) (Am. . while the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) sets forth rules to determine when foreign states may be sued in federal and state courts. 211 But see First Natl City Bank v. Banco Nacional de Cuba, 406 U.S. 759, 765 (1972) (plurality opinion) (Rehnquist, J.) 38 See id. Id. When a U.S. court is asked to decline jurisdiction in favor of a pending foreign proceeding (or alternatively to enjoin the parties from continuing such a proceeding), the foreign tribunal has taken jurisdiction but not yet issued a judgment. Sovereign party comity is deference to foreign government actors as litigants in U.S. courts. * Martin Luther King, Jr. Other international comity doctrines that allow the Executive to dictate the outcome in specific casesthe Bernstein exception to the act of state doctrine, Altmanns possibility of deference to statements of interest under the FSIA, and Sosas suggestion of case-specific deference in ATS casespresent the same dangers. Microsoft Corp. v. Motorola, Inc., 696 F.3d 872, 886 (9th Cir. Law Inst. 203 Close 75 See Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692, 733 n.21 (2004) (stating we would certainly consider [an exhaustion] requirement in an appropriate case). 96 <>stream In contrast to state-law rules on the conflict of laws, the act of state doctrine has no public policy exception. Abelesz v. Magyar Nemzeti Bank, 692 F.3d 661, 684 (7th Cir. It has been fertile in suggesting a discretion unregulated by general principles. In effectuating the purposes of international comity, rules have some advantages over standards. 237, 260 (2010). at 1201. The comity of courts, Scalia said, referred to doctrines whereby judges decline to exercise jurisdiction over matters more appropriately adjudged elsewhere. Based on this survey, this Article adopts a functional definition of international comity that captures its uses in American law today: International comity is deference to foreign government actors that is not required by international law but is incorporated in domestic law. 35 (1976) (testimony of Monroe Leigh, Legal Adviser, Dept of State) [hereinafter Leigh Testimony]. 1782(a) (2012) (The district court of the district in which a person resides or is found may order him to give his testimony or statement or to produce a document or other thing for use in a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal. 363 Close Law Inst., Preliminary Draft No. .). See Socit Nationale Industrielle Arospatiale v. U.S. Dist. Close The Seventh Circuit took up the prudential exhaustion baton in another FSIA expropriation case, basing its exhaustion requirement on the comity between sovereign nations that lies close to the heart of most international law. 2013); Khulumani v. Barclay Natl Bank Ltd., 504 F.3d 254, 261 (2d Cir. Kirkpatrick & Co. v. Envtl. But this separation of powers rationale ultimately rests on comity, for it reflects the strong sense of the Judicial Branch that its engagement in the task of passing on the validity of foreign acts of state may hinder rather than further this countrys pursuit of goals both for itself and for the community of nations as a whole in the international sphere. Close No. doctrines that considered private interests were excluded almost by definition. H 10, art. 164, 167 (1870) (recognizing privilege of bringing suit on basis of comity); The Santissima Trinidad, 20 U.S. (7 Wheat.) See Restatement (Second) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States 9 (Am. 1999) ([I]n the interests of international comity, we apply the same general principles [of Colorado River abstention] with respect to parallel proceedings in a foreign court.). Socit Nationale Industrielle Arospatiale v. U.S. Dist. 362 Part IV challenges both of these myths. 305 . Close, Storys 1834 treatise Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws cemented comity into the foundations of American conflicts law. For an excellent review of possible solutions, see id. See, e.g., Restatement (Second) of Conflicts of Laws 145 (Am. Laker Airways Ltd. v. Sabena, Belgian World Airlines, 731 F.2d 909, 95051 (D.C. Cir. Close Modern customary international law requires sovereign immunity in some cases, although the exact contours of the customary international law rules are uncertain. See Sarah H. Cleveland & William S. Dodge, Defining and Punishing Offenses Under Treaties, 124 Yale L.J. 49 endstream and instead articulated a number of factors to guide the district courts discretion. Continue reading 62 Hilton, 159 U.S. at 163. The literature is voluminous. See Skiriotes v. Florida, 313 U.S. 69, 79 (1941) (deferring to state interpretation of geographic scope of state statute despite statutory language apparently inconsistent with that interpretation). The power of taxation is limited to the territorial jurisdiction of the taxing state. As a Principle of Recognition. A panel of the Ninth Circuit later applied the doctrine to an expropriation claim brought under the FSIA, though that decision was later vacated when the case was reheard en banc. Close 181 413 The border between the two has shifted over time. It also underlines the point that courts and legislatures may shape the international comity doctrines, as rules of domestic law, to achieve an appropriate level of deference to foreign lawmakers, foreign courts, and foreign governments as litigants. 403 endstream endobj Paul Stephan similarly notes that [e]ncounters between courts may be retrospective, prospective, or on-going. Paul B. Stephan, Courts on Courts: Contracting for Engagement and Indifference in International Judicial Encounters, 100 Va. L. Rev. . at 405 (finding it unnecessary to address possibility of exception for cases in which the Executive Branch has represented that it has no objection to denying validity to the foreign sovereign act). Under this doctrine, a court will first look to see if an adequate alternative forum exists. Close In Ungaro-Benages v. Dresdner Bank AG, the Eleventh Circuit went further and upheld abstention on international comity grounds, despite the absence of parallel foreign proceedings, to support a foundation established by the United States and Germany to hear claims brought by victims of the Nazi regime. Recognizing foreign law as applicable to a particular case, for example, often means restraining the application of domestic law to that case. 36 0 obj For an excellent discussion of comity and slavery, see Paul Finkelman, An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity 4 (1981) (Such comity. H xS**T0T0 Bih]" W (International Comity. Story, supra note 54, 18, at 25. . Close See id. at 610. Others, like the presumption against extraterritoriality, may properly allow for deference to agency interpretations. Close C 06-80038 JF (PVT), 2006 WL 825250, at *3 (N.D. Cal. Childress, supra note 20, at 34. It has three goals: (1) to offer a better definition of international comity and a framework for analyzing its manifestations in American law; (2) to explain the relationship between international comity and international law; and (3) to challenge the myths that international comity doctrines must take the form of standards rather than rules and that international comity determinations should be left to the executive branch. Intl L.J. See, e.g., Doe v. Exxon Mobil Corp., 654 F.3d 11, 58 (D.C. Cir. 8, intro. 1215/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2012 on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters (Recast), 2012 O.J. 539, 611 (1842). 5 0 obj For discussion of the extent to which the executive branch may control the access of foreign governments to U.S. courts, see infra note 371 and accompanying text. See supra note 195 and accompanying text (discussing cases applying section 403). As with prescriptive comity and adjudicative comity, sovereign party comity operates in American law both as a principle of recognition and as a principle of restraint. Close endobj Close, This definition of comity is both incomplete and ambiguous. 306 228 v. Tremblay, 223 U.S. 185, 190 (1912) (holding Supreme Court had no jurisdiction to review state courts decision on recognition of foreign judgment). w3TPI2T0 BC#=3\. Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States 403 (Am. 208 No. 401 xs Close or to allow foreign governments to bring suit as plaintiffs in U.S. courts. but there were important differences between Hubers first two maxims and his third. (L 339) 3. See Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino, 376 U.S. 398, 421 (1964) (That international law does not require application of the [act of state] doctrine is evidenced by the practice of nations.). The Belgenland, 114 U.S. 355, 363 (1885). Close, Just two years after International Shoe, in Gulf Oil Corp. v. Gilbert, Close 60 0 obj . Watson speculates that Mansfield was deliberately ignoring Huber in order to reach his decision, Watson, supra, at 68, and that the attorneys for Somersets owners must not have raised Huber since that would have forced Mansfields hand, id. .); GDG Acquisitions, LLC v. Govt of Belize, 749 F.3d 1024, 1030 (11th Cir. at 599 (quoting In re Maxwell Commc'n Corp. plc by Homan, 93 F.3d 1036, 1047 (2d Cir.1996)). Discussing prescriptive comity as a principle of restraint in the Laker case, Judge Malcolm Wilkey observed: If promotion of international comity is measured by the number of times United States jurisdiction has been declined under the reasonableness interest balancing approach, then it has been a failure. . 258 Close The Supreme Court has repeatedly emphasized the virtually unflagging obligation of the federal courts to exercise the jurisdiction given them. 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