United States Second Circuit

In a case in which a potential judgment-debtor sought a global anti-enforcement injunction against defendants from the Lago Agrio region of the Ecuadorian Amazon, prohibiting them from attempting to enforce an allegedly fraudulent judgment entered by an Ecuadorian court, the district court's grant of the injunction is reversed with orders to dismiss the claim, where the district court erred in construing New York’s Uniform Foreign Country Money-Judgments Recognition Act to grant the putative judgment-debtors a cause of action to challenge foreign judgments before enforcement of those judgments was sought.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/26/2012
• Published 01/26/2012

Judges

• Gerard E. Lynch

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Tyrrell, Jr., Randy M. Mastro