Hannah L. Buxbaum
UC Davis School of Law
Hannah Buxbaum is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law. Her research on private international law and jurisdiction focuses on transnational economic regulation. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the International Academy of Comparative Law, and the Advisory Committee on Private International Law for the U.S. Department of State. She currently serves as the U.S. member on the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law.
Civil Contempt Orders Against Non-Parties in Parallel Proceedings
Among the challenges U.S. courts face in managing parallel litigation is enforcing any anti-suit injunctions they might order. In this regard, one of the most important enforcement tools they have at their disposal is the power to impose contempt sanctions in response to violations of their orders. The authority of a court to hold the…
Continue ReadingChoice of Law in Shareholder Derivative Litigation
U.S.-based investors hold trillions of dollars in equity of foreign companies. In the event of corporate wrongdoing, those investors may want to initiate shareholder derivative litigation in the United States against the managers of those corporations. This form of litigation is brought on behalf of the corporation itself rather than as a direct action. Derivative…
Continue ReadingSDNY Grants Anti-Suit Injunction Against TV Azteca
For the past several years, parallel litigation has been ongoing in Mexico and the United States between the Mexican media conglomerate TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V. and The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY), the Indenture Trustee for a series of TV Azteca’s unsecured notes. Two weeks ago, Judge Paul G. Gardephe (SDNY) granted BNY’s…
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