SARDANIS v. SUMITOMO CORP.


279 A.D.2d 225 (2001)

718 N.Y.S.2d 66

ANDREW S. SARDANIS, Respondent, v. SUMITOMO CORPORATION et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

January 9, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ahmed A. Massoud of counsel (Massoud & Pashkoff, L. L. P., attorneys), for respondent.

H. Christopher Boehning of counsel (Roberta A. Kaplan and Wendy R. Weiser on the brief; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, attorneys), for Sumitomo Corporation, appellant.

H. Peter Haveles, Jr., of counsel (Anna K. Sils, Skye Gabel, Tom M. Fini and Robin L. Larmer on the brief; Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, attorneys), for Global Minerals and Metals Corporation and others, appellants.

NARDELLI, J.P., ELLERIN, LERNER and FRIEDMAN, JJ., concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

WALLACH, J.

This appeal requires us to revisit (and, indeed, to revise) our position with respect to the strictures of the Hague Convention of 1965, an international treaty to which both the United States and Japan are signatories, as it applies to the service of process herein upon a Japanese corporation. We must also consider the scope of the Penal Law pertaining to commercial bribery, and...

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