Summary

In Termorio , the United States District Court for the District of Columbia considered a new question that has perplexed practitioners and scholars of international arbitration law for several decades - whether an award falling under the New York Convention may be enforced even after a court in the loci arbitrii has vacated it. A decade ago, the court in Chromalloy Aerospace v. Arab Republic of Egypt , 939 F.Supp. 907 (D.D.C. 1996) answered this question in the affirmative. Termorio coming ironically from the same court as Chromalloy , reaches the ...