Matt Slovin
Matt Slovin is an Ohio municipal attorney. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts in 2014 and from Harvard Law School in 2019. Before becoming a lawyer, he was a sports reporter for The (Nashville) Tennessean.
CIMEX’s Implications for Foreign Official Immunity in TVPA Cases
In Exxon Mobil Corp v. Corporación CIMEX, S.A. (Cuba), the Supreme Court held that Congress, by creating a cause of action against agencies and instrumentalities of foreign states, abrogated the immunity from suit that an instrumentality of Cuba would otherwise have enjoyed under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). (For analysis, see here.) The Court relied on…
Continue ReadingFourth Circuit Answers Civ Pro Hypothetical
Civil procedure professors love to gin up tricky hypotheticals to quiz 1Ls on the limits of diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a). The Fourth Circuit recently confronted a real-world scenario involving a dual-citizen LLC and the distinction between § 1332(a)(2) and § 1332(a)(3). In a decision destined to be cited in casebooks, the Fourth…
Continue ReadingMaine Supreme Court Declines to Recognize Foreign Marriage
Under traditional choice of law rules, a marriage performed outside of a U.S. state (even in a foreign country) will be recognized as valid if it meets the requirements of the place of celebration. Under the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws, by contrast, the validity of a marriage is determined by the law of…
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