Federal Judge Says Enforcing Chinese Award Outside China Does Not Violate Comity

Mealey's (March 23, 2020, 9:26 AM EDT) -- BALTIMORE — A federal judge in Maryland in an opinion filed Feb. 24 granted a petition to enforce an arbitral award against a Maryland resident related to a Chinese real estate arbitration dispute, holding that the respondent’s previous offer to tender payment through a Chinese mainland bank, which the Hong Kong-based petitioner cannot legally accept, did not moot petitioner’s claim for relief, and disagreed with arguments that enforcing the award would violate comity (Estate of Ke Zhengguang v. Yu Naifen Stephany, No. 18-3546, D. Md., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30619)....