English High Court determines that ratification of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards does not constitute prior written agreement to waive sovereign immunity ...

On March 26, 2025, the Supreme Court held in an 8‑to‑1 decision authored by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that Section 106(a) of the Bankruptcy Code waives the federal government’s sovereign immunity ...

"The plain language of § 4-160 unambiguously puts the state in the same position as a private person once sovereign immunity is waived, and, at that juncture, the state retains all the rights and ...