Marseille-Kliniken AG v Republic of Equatorial Guinea - United States District Court for the District of Columbia Civil Action No 2020-3572 - Memorandum Opinion - 14 November 2023
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2023
Summary
Memorandum Opinion
Marseille-Kliniken AG won an arbitration award against the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and then petitioned this Court to confirm the award. In opposition, Equatorial Guinea says that the parties agreed to litigate in an Equatoguinean court before using arbitration as an appeal tribunal. That argument has a few problems, chief among which is that such procedural preconditions to arbitration are for arbitrators to decide. For that reason and others, the arbitration award will be CONFIRMED.
