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United States: District Court for the Southern District of Texas Memorandum and Order in the Matter of the Complaint of Sedco, Inc. (Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act; Jurisdiction in Offshore Drilling Disaster; Limitation of Liability Act)*

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International Legal Materials , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , March 1982 , pp. 318 - 341
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1982

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Footnotes

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[Reproduced from the text provided by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

[The U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 appears at 15 I.L.M. 1388 (1976). The House of Representatives Report No. 94-1487on “Jurisdiction of United States Courts in Suits against Foreign States” appears at 15 I.L.M. 1398 (1976).]

References

1 See this Court's Memorandum and Order dated March 27, 1981,awarding Fed. R. Civ. P. 37 sactions against Permargo and its attornevs.

2 Therefore, service upon Pereargo through Mr. Falgout would be proper under Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(d)(3) subject only to the restrictions of due process, which are satisfied here. See Jim FexEnterprises. Inc. v. Air France, 664 F.2d 63, 64 (5th Cir. 1981)

3 This Motion was joined in by the Haylock Plaintiffs.