Sovereign Immunity

International Law Update - Nbr. 12-3, March 2006

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Summary:

On appeal of apparent countersuit against U.S. Federal Trade Commission by Canadian individual and corporations charged with fraudulent "cramming" of U. S. consumers, Ontario Court of Appeal rules that notice of proceeding to serve FTC failed to comply with Canadian State Immunity Act

Core Citations:

CITES
George Dale, Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Mississippi, in His Official Capacity as Receiver of Franklin Protective Life Insurance Company, Family Guaranty Life Insurance Company, and First National Life Insurance Company of America; W. Dale Finke, Director of the Department of Insurance for the State of Missouri, in His Official Capacity as Receiver of International Financial Services Life Insurance Company; Kim Holland, Insurance Commissioner for the State of Oklahoma, in Her Official Capacity as Receiver of Farmers and Ranchers Life Insurance Company; Julie Benafield Bowman, Insurance Commissioner for the State of Arkansas, in His Official Capacity as Receiver of Old Southwest Life Insurance Company; Paula A. Flowers, Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance for the State of Tennessee, in Her Official Capacity as Receiver of Franklin American Life Insurance Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Emilio Colagiovanni, Et Al., Defendants, Holy See, Also Known as Vatican City State, Defendant-Appellant.

Extract:

Sovereign Immunity

By way of limited background to the Ontario Court of Appeal's laconic opinion below, the Update presents excerpts from an FTC press release issued on June 22, 2005. "In July 2004, the Federal Trade Commission charged a group of Canadian defendants, that is Canada Inc., d/b/a Pinacle, Canada Inc, d/b/a M.D.S.C. Publishing and Terrence Croteau, with scamming small businesses and charities in the United States out of millions of doll...

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