{"id":431219,"date":"2021-08-18T10:27:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T04:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431219"},"modified":"2021-08-18T12:03:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T06:33:18","slug":"india-asks-us-court-to-reject-cairns-1-2-billion-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-asks-us-court-to-reject-cairns-1-2-billion-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"India asks US court to reject Cairn&#8217;s $1.2 billion suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government has asked a federal court in Washington to dismiss Britain&#8217;s Cairn NSE 0.81 % Energy suit seeking enforcement of a USD 1.2 billion arbitral award, saying it had sovereign immunity under US law.<\/p>\n<p>Cairn had in May asked a US federal court to force Air India to pay a USD 1.26 billion arbitration award the firm had won in December.<\/p>\n<p>The government on August 13 filed a &#8216;Motion to Dismiss&#8217; petition in the US District Court for the District of Colombia, saying it lacked subject matter jurisdiction in the dispute between Cairn and the Indian tax authority, according to a filing seen by PTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government has asked a federal court in Washington to dismiss Britain&#8217;s Cairn NSE 0.81 % Energy suit seeking enforcement of a USD 1.2 billion arbitral award, saying it had sovereign immunity under US law. Cairn had in May asked a US federal court to force Air India to pay a USD 1.26 billion arbitration award the firm had won in December. The government on August 13 filed a &#8216;Motion to Dismiss&#8217; petition in the US District Court for the District of Colombia, saying it lacked subject matter jurisdiction in the dispute between Cairn and the Indian tax authority, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}