CASES OF INTEREST
Monegasque
De Reassurances S.A.M.
(Monde Re) v. Nak Naftogaz of Ukraine and Ukraine, 311 F.3d 488 (2d
Cir. 2002)
$88
Million
contract dispute between AO Gazprom of Russia and NAK
Naftogaz a Ukrainian company for
the transportation
of natural gas by pipeline across Ukraine to various destinations in
Europe. Issues involved the jurisdiction of US courts in
enforcing arbitration awards rendered in a foreign jurisdiction and
issues of forum
non conveniens.
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Forced/Slave
Labor Litigations
Against German and Austrian Industry.
A series of class
actions instituted to recover compensation for 1.5 million
survivors of the Nazi forcible deportations during W.W.II.
International negotiations between the US, Germany, Israel,
Belarus, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Ukraine and class
action attorneys resulted in a 10 Billion DM settlement.
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Ukrainian
Orthodox Church of the
USA, Archbishop Antony, et. als. v. Luchejko et. als.
Litigation instituted by the Archbishop Antony and by the Ukrainian
Orthodox Church of the USA against the Holy Ascension Parish in Clifton
NJ in an attempt to appoint the Parish’s Board of Trustees and thereby
control its physical assets - title to which is with the parish.
This action was taken in retaliation for the Parish questioning the
validity of the secret 1994 “Points of Agreement” entered into by the
UOC-USA hierarchs and the Patriarch of Constantinople. The Parish
resisted the litigation stating that Points of Agreement constituted an
unlawful abandonment of the historical autocephaly (independence) of
the UOC-USA and that in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church property rights
were solely those of the Parish. Issues include res judicata, estoppel,
standing to sue, jurisdiction of civil courts over religious entities,
and 1st and 14th amendment constitutional questions.
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