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[John Cowan]

Bruce Perens wrote:
 
> I don't see that a non-US court would uphold a requirement to arbitrate
> through a U.S. association when one or both litigants are non-US.

Sure it would (but IANAL, and there are probably exceptions).  Unless the
foreign court had reason to believe that a miscarriage of justice would
occur (as by prescribing flipping a coin, or some similarly unreliable
procedure) it would be normally quite willing to defer to the arbitrator.

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