9th Circuit: Shareholder Established No Basis To Compel Arbitration With Qatar

Mealey's (February 17, 2021, 1:34 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 16 affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a shareholder’s derivative lawsuit seeking to compel arbitration with the state of Qatar and its armed forces, finding that the shareholder had failed to establish any basis for voiding a forum selection clause in an earlier agreement settling the dispute and presented no evidence that he would be deprived of due process in Qatari courts....