Yegiazaryan v. Smagin (599 U.S. 533)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 22, 2023 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 599 U.S. 533 · 143 S. Ct. 1900
- Decided
- June 22, 2023
- Term
- October Term 2022
- Vote
- 6–3
- Majority author
- Justice Sotomayor
- Issue area
- Economic Activity
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
Opinion excerpt
PRELIMINARY PRINT Volume 599 U. S. Part 1 Pages 533–554 OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE SUPREME COURT June 22, 2023 Page Proof Pending Publication REBECCA A. WOMELDORF reporter of decisions NOTICE: This preliminary print is subject to formal revision before the bound volume is published. Users are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C. 20543, pio@supremecourt.gov, of any typographical or other formal errors. OCTOBER TERM, 2022 533 Syllabus YEGIAZARYAN, aka EGIAZARYAN v. SMAGIN et al. certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit No. 22–381. Argued April 25, 2023—Decided June 22, 2023* Respondent Vitaly Smagin won a multimillion dollar arbitration award in 2014 against petitioner Ashot Yegiazaryan stemming from the misappro- priation of investment funds in a joint real estate venture in Moscow. Because Yegiazaryan has lived in California since 2010, Smagin, who lives in Russia, fled suit to confrm and enforce the award in the Central District of California pursuant to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. The District Court ini- tially froze Yegiazaryan's California assets before fnally entering judg- ment against him. The District Court also entered several postjudg- ment orders barring Yegiazaryan and those acting at his direction from preventing collection…
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