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First Tuesday Update is our monthly take on current issues in
commercial disputes, international arbitration, and judgment
enforcement. This month we share an update on a first-of-its-kind
lawsuit brought under the Helms-Burton Act against a foreign
sovereign's agencies and instrumentalities. As regular readers
may recall, the Helms-Burton Act, enacted by Congress in 1996,
deals generally with US-Cuban relations (memorializing the American
embargo against Cuba, among other things) and its Title III creates
a cause of action that permits a US national to use US courts to