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Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Europe v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, No. 21-7019 · judgment January 25, 2022
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a D.C. Circuit decision below and a circuit split argued in the petition.
Question presented
Whether a District Court deciding a motion for default judgment may find service upon a foreign State pursuant to Article 15 of the Hague Service Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil and Commercial Matters and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act where the plaintiff actually delivered service papers to the State’s Central Authority, its Foreign Ministry, and the Central Authority refused to deliver the papers to the Venezuelan Attorney General, a State organ to which the Venezuelan Central Authority should have delivered papers under Venezuela’s internal law.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Alexander Athan Yanos
Alston & Bird LLP
For respondent
Kent A. Yalowitz
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Proceedings
- Oct 03 2022Petition DENIED.
- Aug 31 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
- Aug 31 2022Reply of petitioner Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Europe filed. (Distributed)
- Aug 17 2022Brief of respondent Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in opposition filed.
- Jul 18 2022Response Requested. (Due August 17, 2022)
- Jun 29 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
- Jun 27 2022Waiver of right of respondent Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to respond filed.
- Jun 16 2022Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 21, 2022)