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- Title: Courage Company
- Author : Texas Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 22, 2002
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 82 KB
Description
This is an appeal from a Harris County district court's judgment denying recognition of a foreign money judgment that appellant, The Courage Company, L.L.C. ("Courage") obtained against appellee, The ChemShare Corporation ("ChemShare") in the District Court of Tokyo, Japan. Courage challenges the district court's determination that the Japanese judgment was not entitled to recognition or enforcement in Texas for the following reasons: (1) the Japanese system did not provide procedures compatible with due process because it did not provide for jury trials; (2) the Tokyo District Court did not have personal jurisdiction over ChemShare; (3) Courage's cause of action was repugnant to the public policy of Texas; (4) the parties agreed to submit to arbitration; (5) Japan was a seriously inconvenient forum for ChemShare; and (6) Courage failed to comply with the procedural requirements of the Texas Uniform Foreign Country Money-Judgment Recognition Act ( "UFCMJRA") by failing to provide a properly authenticated translation of the judgment. Because the parties had agreed to submit to arbitration, we affirm on that ground and do not reach