international comity taxation

109 Banks v. Greenleaf, 2 F. Cas. 1350 note (Torture Victim Protection) (A court shall decline to hear a claim under this section if the claimant has not exhausted adequate and available remedies in the place in which the conduct giving rise to the claim occurred.). Close In areas like foreign sovereign immunity and prescriptive jurisdiction, doctrines of international comity are layered on top of rules of international law, creating a comity penumbra that surrounds an international law core. L-39086, June 15, 1988 (245 Phil. Letter from Richard G. Kleindienst, Attorney Gen., & William P. Rogers, Secy of State, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Jan. 16, 1973), reprinted in Foreign State Immunity Hearing, supra note 406, at 34. Many judges resist the notion that the Executive should be able to dictate results in particular cases. at 227 ([J]udgments rendered in France, or in any other foreign country, by the laws of which our own judgments are reviewable upon the merits, are not entitled to full credit and conclusive effect when sued upon in this country. 299 See infra notes 352353 and accompanying text (discussing doctrines of adjudicative comity that operate as principles of restraint). Second, Hubers final maxim expressly permitted discretion by the sovereign, which could deny the effect of foreign law to the extent necessary to protect itself and its subjects. Some international comity doctrines have been interpreted to permit case-by-case discretion by the executive branch. Close Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States 102(2) (Am. [1] Taxation must be for a public purpose. . Close. Although Chief Justice Marshall did not use the word comity, Justice Story, who joined the opinion in The Schooner Exchange, would write just a decade later that the doctrine expounded in that case stands upon principles of public comity and convenience. 213 See 28 U.S.C. Mujica v. Airscan Inc., 771 F.3d 580, 609 (9th Cir. Close 1984). H Holman v. Johnson (1775) 98 Eng. 204 Close, Just two years after International Shoe, in Gulf Oil Corp. v. Gilbert, The author read all 637 cases and eliminated those that discussed comity only in a domestic context, leaving more than 100 Supreme Court cases relevant to international comity. Id. Law Inst. Rep. 99, 78 (Feb. 3) (discussing state immunity for military activities during armed conflict); Arrest Warrant of 11 April 2000 (Dem. Close Court for S. Dist. e (A state is responsible to other states, and to some extent to international organizations and private persons, for breach of its duties under international law or agreement.). 225 Recognition automatically confers the privilege of bringing suit in U.S. courts as a matter of comity, at least in the absence of a state of war with the United States. . and the Second Circuit holding that the only fact that matters is the State Departments determination of immunity. Daimler allows for general jurisdiction over a corporation at some other place only in an exceptional case. Id. 15 Close Hilton, 159 U.S. at 163. 1998) (The Act does not preclude recognition of other types of judgments through the doctrine of comity.). at 41011 (rejecting argument that unfriendliness, including severance of diplomatic relations, should lead to denial of privilege). Today, American courts also use international comity to restrain the reach of domestic law. at 409. Austen L. Parrish, Duplicative Foreign Litigation, 78 Geo. 2005 Uniform Act, supra note 106, 4(c)(3) (emphasis added). 41 Part II identifies solidarity federalism in both U.S. constitutional doctrine and U.S. politics. (referring to international comity to limit interference with internal affairs of foreign-flag ship); Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692, 761 (2004) (Breyer, J., concurring in part and concurring in the judgment) (referring to notions of comity that lead each nation to respect the sovereign rights of other nations by limiting the reach of its laws and their enforcement). endobj Id. 318 In addition, the study of international law, or public international law, is distinguished from the field of conflict of laws, Read More . Second, this Article explains the critical distinction between international law and international comity. 6a, 45(a)(3) (2012) (limiting geographic scope of Sherman Act and Federal Trade Commission Act). See, e.g., Curtis A. Bradley & Laurence R. Helfer, International Law and the U.S. Common Law of Foreign Official Immunity, 2010 Sup. a (Am. . The conflict of laws and the enforcement of foreign judgments are governed by state law in the United States. . 342 154514. 1838) (No. A. I only. Id. and counterclaims. 253 Sovereign party comity is deference to foreign government actors as litigants in U.S. courts. See, e.g., Louis Kaplow, Rules Versus Standards: An Economic Analysis, 42 Duke L.J. 301 4. 211 Story, supra note 54, 38, at 41. When an American court enforces foreign law, it not only recognizes that a foreign state has jurisdiction to prescribe, but also restrains the prescriptive jurisdiction of the forum. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936) ([T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every court to control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for counsel, and for litigants.); see also Colorado River, 424 U.S. at 817 (1976) (describing Landis as rule between federal district courts). 407 endobj 251 234 1987) ([T]here are no agreed principles governing recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, except that no state recognizes or enforces the judgment of another state rendered without jurisdiction over the judgment debtor.). 25 It is not the comity of the courts, but the comity of the nation. Yousuf, 699 F.3d at 773. Close The combination of expanding international trade and climbing corporate income tax rates in the early part of this century required nations to evolve methods for reducing the level of international double taxation. Such discretion invades the province of the judiciary and may harm, rather than advance, U.S. foreign relations. 27 But cf. (noting Canadas State Immunity Act has chosen to embrace principles of comity and state sovereignty over the interests of individuals wishing to sue a foreign state in Canadian courts for acts of torture committed abroad); see also William S. Dodge, Is Torture an Official Act? 32 Close Close 1, 2014) (noting no Uniform Act requires reciprocity for recognition of foreign judgment, although six states have added reciprocity as condition for recognition). See supra notes 152154 and accompanying text (discussing emergence of foreign sovereignty rationale). endstream See DeBartolo Corp. v. Fla. Gulf Coast Bldg. See, e.g., Gulf Oil Corp. v. Gilbert, 330 U.S. 501, 508 (1947) (holding forum non conveniens requires consideration of private interest of the litigant as well as [f]actors of public interest); Intl Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310, 316 (1945) (adopting due process standard of fair play and substantial justice). Close 2012) (Chapter 15 provides courts with broad, flexible rules to fashion relief appropriate for effectuating its objectives in accordance with comity.); Cunard S.S. Co. v. Salen Reefer Servs. 222 cmt. The Supreme Court has also looked to international comity to limit the exercise of specific jurisdiction under the heading of reasonableness. When determining whether an exercise of personal jurisdiction is reasonable under the Due Process Clause, the Supreme Court has expressly required lower courts to consider the procedural and substantive policies of other nations whose interests are affected by the assertion of jurisdiction. There is no international law rule requiring the exhaustion of local remedies before a claim is brought in another domestic court. The recognition of foreign governments is controlled by the executive branch. It is clear from Mr. Prochaska's insightful scholarship that a confluence of interests has played a major role in the comity between the two nations.-Martin Rubin, Wall Street Journal|9780300141955|, The Eagle and the Crown is a remarkably concise . (manuscript at 12). , so long as its refusal to give it effect is not arbitrary according to the rules of the conflict of laws of states that have reasonably developed legal systems.). 1971) (articulating standard for torts); id. Section 2(b) of the Torture Victim Protection Act imposes an exhaustion requirement by statute for human rights claims brought under that act. . The federal act of state doctrine, on the other hand, is quite rule-like. 187 The Supreme Court captured the distinction in its 1938 Guaranty Trust decision. See infra notes 382385 and accompanying text (discussing deference to executive branch determinations of immunity). Morrison v. Natl Austl. xs . endobj These different ways of exercising adjudicative comity can best be viewed as parts of a larger whole. a. 1607. 28 0 obj 767.041 Full faith and credit; comity. 635). or elusive. Close 1350 (2012). 15.300.380 (2013) (codifying choice of law for contracts); id. It occurs when one country shows respect for the laws, judicial decisions, and institutions of another. See Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States: Jurisdiction 404 cmt. ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF INTERNAL REVENUE TAX IS THAT THEY ARE-(RPCPA) Gilbert, 330 U.S. at 50809 (outlining private and public interest factors); see also Piper, 454 U.S. at 25761 (discussing district courts application of private and public interest factors). Other scholars have likewise identified the doctrine of forum non conveniens as a manifestation of comity. to limit the federal-common-law cause of action for human rights violations under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), emphasizing that the presumption serves to protect against unintended clashes between our laws and those of other nations which could result in international discord.. xS**T0T0 BiU" Sec. Under the FSIA, Congress has also given the State Department express authority to permit terrorism suits against foreign states by designating them state sponsor[s] of terrorism. 342, 344 (K.B.). See Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States ch. at 23 (Vague terms, such as comity, promise much and deliver little in terms of usable instructions for judges facing a potential encounter with foreign courts.). The literature is voluminous. .). (n.s.) This Article uses adjudicative as counterpart to prescriptive, but no difference in meaning is intended. 51 0 obj 383 51 endobj Because of its expertise in foreign relations, the executive branch is in a better position to understand the benefits of foreign reciprocation or the likelihood and costs of retaliation than the judiciary. The discretion afforded under the public policy exception may also make conflicts approaches seem like standards, but this discretion is cabined by the requirement that the forums public policy be a strong one. 1981) ([W]hen enforcement has promised to further, rather than violate, the policy aims of the United States, our courts have given extraterritorial effect to foreign expropriations.); Republic of Iraq v. First Natl City Bank, 353 F.2d 47, 51 (2d Cir. That is a factual phenomenon, not a legal solution to it.). See supra note 224 (discussing 28 U.S.C. Close 8799; investment contracts. Court for S. Dist. This Article proceeds in four parts. H Kirkpatrick & Co. v. Envtl. 115 No rule of customary international law requires the recognition of foreign law, 351 Close, Marshalls treatment of foreign sovereign immunity bears a striking resemblance to Huber and Storys descriptions of comity. a (Am. See Harlan Grant Cohen, Formalism and Distrust: Foreign Affairs Law in the Roberts Court, 83 Geo. Empagran rejected comity as a case-by-case balancing approach, which it said was too complex to prove workable, and instead looked to comity as the basis for more categorical rules about when antitrust law applies abroad. Ungaro-Benages also adapted the factors relevant to abstention. The reasons for this are the ordinary reasons for Chevron deferencethat an ambiguous statute should generally be read as a delegation of interpretative authority to an agency that administers it and that administrative agencies have special expertise with respect to statutory goals and how best to achieve them. v. GE Med. 329 Nature of Taxation Power? endstream See Joel R. Paul, Comity in International Law, 32 Harv. Close 151.615. 324 It therefore excludes international comity by the executive branch in the exercise of its own authority. International comity is one of the principal foundations of U.S. foreign relations law. courts have refused to permit persons who have acted in bad faith to rely on the defense.). 28 note at 17 (Am. 375 1 Close . In Empagran, the Supreme Court invoked not the presumption against extraterritoriality but a principle of constru[ing] ambiguous statutes to avoid unreasonable interference with the sovereign authority of other nations, 188 (articulating standard for contracts). Looking to principles of international comity in such cases certainly makes more sense than looking to principles of federalism. <>>>/BBox[0 0 377.76 588]/Length 47>>stream Public interests found expression only as a justification for not extending comity to foreign laws, because under Hubers third maxim, one nation would enforce the laws of another only insofar as they do not cause prejudice to the power or rights of such government or of its subjects. Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, pt. 408 111359. I, ch. 557 (1992); Duncan Kennedy, Form and Substance in Private Law Adjudication, 89 Harv. endobj 103 2000) (applying Colorado River abstention to foreign proceedings). Close . particularized analysis of the respective interests of the foreign nation and the requesting nation. L-9637. See William S. Dodge, International Comity in American Law, 115 Colum. 377 The Restatement departed from Timberlane by conceptualizing this balancing of interests not as a requirement of comity but a rule of international law. Id. American notions of comity find their origin in the writings of the seventeenth-century Dutch jurist Ulrich Huber, whose approach was adopted in turn by the influential English judge Lord Mansfield. 356 147 depends upon what our greatest jurists have been content to call the comity of nations). See, e.g., Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino, 376 U.S. 398, 41112 (1964) (rejecting reciprocity requirement for foreign governments privilege of bringing suit in U.S. courts); Restatement (Second) of Conflicts of Laws 6 cmt. 56 0 obj And other countries moderate the jurisdiction of their courts with a doctrine of lis pendens that defers in rule-like fashion to the first court seized with jurisdiction. 1971) (The rules in the Restatement of this Subject apply to cases with elements in one or more States of the United States and are generally applicable to cases with elements in one or more foreign nations.). Justice Scalia has also retreated from the balancing approach he advocated in Hartford. 201 See Sullivan, supra note 322, at 61 (A rule may be corrupted by exceptions to the point where it resembles a standard; likewise, a standard may attach such fixed weights to the multiple factors it considers that it resembles a rule. at 817 (Scalia, J., dissenting). 13 TRUE 7. 2014) (holding district court should undertake a comity analysis in light of apparent conflict between the obligations set forth in the Asset Freeze Injunction and applicable Chinese banking laws). A number of prior articles have discussed international comity in American law, but each has been restricted in some way. Historically, however, comity had as much to do with private interests in convenience as with the public interests of other sovereigns. S endobj They also refer to a strain of thinking about the act of state doctrine. 164 172 2012); Quaak v. Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler Bedrijfsrevisoren, 361 F.3d 11, 18 (1st Cir. <>>>/BBox[0 0 377.76 588]/Length 46>>stream In Sabbatino, Justice Harlan observed that [o]ften the State Department will wish to refrain from taking an official position, particularly at a moment that would be dictated by the development of private litigation but might be inopportune diplomatically. Close x+ | Rep. 1120, 1121; 1 Cowp. . Empagrans presumption against unreasonable interference also has a standard-like quality, although the Court applied it in that case to generate clear rules about the applicability of the Sherman Act and expressly rejected case-by-case balancing. Quackenbush, 517 U.S. at 721. Under the doctrine of head-of-state immunity, immunity from suit follows automatically from the executive branchs recognition of a particular person as a foreign head of state, head of government, or foreign minister. 232 See infra Part III (explaining differences between international comity and international law). Close Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino, 376 U.S. 398, 40809 (1964); see also The Sapphire, 78 U.S. (11 Wall.) In Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., the Supreme Court refused to impose a rule limiting assistance to information that would be discoverable under the foreign tribunals rules Only the first rationale reflects international comity. 116 46 Although Justice Scalia argued for a balancing of interests in Hartford, 509 U.S. at 81819 (Scalia, J., dissenting), he retreated in Spector to a more characteristic preference for categorical rules. I entirely agree with him. In the domestic context, a few other abstention doctrines exist. Other international comity doctrines that allow the Executive to dictate the outcome in specific casesthe Bernstein exception to the act of state doctrine, Altmanns possibility of deference to statements of interest under the FSIA, and Sosas suggestion of case-specific deference in ATS casespresent the same dangers. A strong case can be made that the Presidents recognition should also control a foreign states entitlement to immunity under the FSIA. which others have classified among the comity doctrines. Scholars echo these complaints. Close International comity is discretionary, allowing the United States to decide for itself how much recognition or restraint to afford in deference to foreign government actors. 10 0 obj 155 See, e.g., Restatement (Second) of Conflicts of Laws 145 (Am. In England and America, this discretion was exercised in the first instance by courts but subject always to legislative control. Res. at 50607 (In all cases in which the doctrine of forum non conveniens comes into play, it presupposes at least two forums in which the defendant is amenable to process. Some have asserted that this discretion must be exercised on a case-by-case basis and that the executive branch is more competent to apply the doctrines of international comity. 2014) (To date, we have reserved prospective international comity abstention for rare (indeed often calamitous) cases in which powerful diplomatic interests of the United States and foreign sovereigns aligned in supporting dismissal.); see also Perforaciones Exploracin y Produccin v. Martimas Mexicanas, S.A. de C.V., 356 F. Appx 675, 681 (5th Cir. endstream Close, On the restraint side of the ledger, some courts applying section 403 of the Restatement (Third) of Foreign Relations Law have determined the geographic scope of U.S. statutes on a case-by-case basis. Close Most problematic are international comity doctrines that would allow the Executive to dictate the outcome of particular cases, like the Bernstein exception to the act of state doctrine or the authority that the executive branch currently claims to make binding determinations with respect to the conduct-based immunity of foreign officials. endstream 92 19 Residence-based taxation . But comity as a principle of restraint was more difficult to explain in convenience terms. as a reasonable assumption about the focus of congressional concern in most cases. at 138. 1987). <>stream Close 1971) (rejecting reciprocity requirement for conflict of laws). *zgSL=/\., *BMdxVV lC8z6c^q; x/2@3P#yx,%WX[-LttDb c?/iI . 1991) (Breyer, C.J.) This discretionary aspect of international comity has been responsible for much of the criticism that the doctrine has attracted over the years. S.S. Rana & Co. 227 endstream Oil Co., 499 U.S. 244, 248 (1991) (citing McCulloch v. Sociedad Nacional de Marineros de Honduras, 372 U.S. 10, 2022 (1963)). 264 25 xs 2004) (noting decision whether to grant antisuit injunction must take account of considerations of international comity); Karaha Bodas Co. v. Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Negara, 335 F.3d 357, 366 (5th Cir. 99 361 In Sabbatino, the Court expressly rejected an alternative standard of friendly relations: This Court would hardly be competent to undertake assessments of varying degrees of friendliness or its absence, and, lacking some definite touchstone for determination, we are constrained to consider any relationship, short of war, with a recognized sovereign power as embracing the privilege of resorting to United States courts. In more recent times, the Supreme Court has consistently characterized foreign sovereign immunity as a matter of grace and comity on the part of the United States. Close, Beginning in the nineteenth century, comity was also invoked to allow a foreign sovereign to bring suit in U.S. courts. endobj Ironically, international comity doctrines that promise deference to the Executive put the Executive in the uncomfortable position of having to make decisions that may disappoint foreign governments. requires that, in the process of deciding [cases], the acts of foreign sovereigns taken within their own jurisdictions shall be deemed valid.). Loucks v. Standard Oil Co. of N.Y., 120 N.E. See Story, supra note 54, 23, at 30 (When its own code speaks positively on the subject, it must be obeyed. It also shows how the rationale for comity shifted from private interests in convenience to public interests in respecting the sovereignty of other nations, a shift that has obscured the comity basis of some doctrines. Wx [ -LttDb c? /iI suit in U.S. courts It is not the comity of )... 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