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The United States District Court for the Northern District of California has granted Google LLC’s motion for preliminary (anti-anti-suit and anti-enforcement) injunctions against NAO Tsargrad Media, holding that international comity did not require recognition of a judgment obtained by Tsargrad in Russia in breach of a forum selection agreement.
The court noted that “in applying Article 248.1 [of the Russian Arbitrazh Procedure Code], the Russian courts sought to delegitimize the U.S. court system by holding that the U.S. courts were not a fair forum capable of delivering justice”, which was “the culmination of an effort to frustrate the U.S. courts’ jurisdiction in clear violation of U.S. public policy”.
The order granting in part motion for the preliminary hearing can be viewed at www.pacer.gov, ref. Case No.: 5:24-cv-05423.
Drew Holiner was instructed in the case as an expert in Russian law by King & Spalding in New York & San Francisco.