9th Cir.
11-55081
The court of appeals affirmed a district court judgment. The court held that the district court’s recognition and enforcement of a Japanese money judgment did not constitute “state action” that would trigger direct constitutional scrutiny where the plaintiff sought enforcement against a defendant church in the United States. The court held further that neither the Japanese judgment nor the cause of action on which it was based rose to the level of repugnance to state or federal public policy that would justify refusal to enforce the judgment under California’s Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act.
