Gregg Cashmark
Vanderbilt Law School
Gregg Cashmark is a second year student at Vanderbilt Law School and is working as a research assistant to Professor Ingrid Brunk. He is a staff editor for the Vanderbilt Law Review and a member of the International Law Society. Gregg graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Philosophy and was awarded the highest distinction in general scholarship. Prior to law school, he worked as a litigation assistant for Gibbs Law Group, a plaintiff-side firm in Oakland, CA.
CVSG in Wye Oak v. Republic of Iraq: Is it Time to Resolve the FSIA “Direct Effect” Circuit Split?
On April 28, 2025, the Supreme Court called for the views of the Solicitor General (colloquially a “CVSG”) in Wye Oak Tech., Inc. v. Republic of Iraq. This is the latest chapter in a decades-long attempt by Wye Oak (discussed in a separate blog post) to recover damages for the breach of a contract it…
Continue ReadingD.C. Circuit Limits Jurisdiction over Foreign States in Breach of Contract Claims
Circuit courts have split on the issue of what is required for a breach of contract to have a “direct effect” in the United States for the purposes of the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act (FSIA) (a primer on foreign sovereign immunity is available here). Rulings in the Seventh and Eleventh Circuits impose a “place of…
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