The paper will then discuss the changes to the UFMJRA in the 2005 revision (known as the “Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act”). The rest of the paper will focus on the public policy exception which can be found in both the UFMJRA and the 2005 revision. The subcategories of that portion will provide a background of the public policy exception, and then proceed to discuss the change in language of the public policy exception in the 2005 revision to include the word “judgment.” More specifically, in that portion, I will argue that the addition of the word “judgment” in the revision was a better approach than the original language in the 1962 UFMJRA which limited the public policy exception to the underlying “cause of action” or “claim for
The paper will then discuss the changes to the UFMJRA in the 2005 revision (known as the “Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act”). The rest of the paper will focus on the public policy exception which can be found in both the UFMJRA and the 2005 revision. The subcategories of that portion will provide a background of the public policy exception, and then proceed to discuss the change in language of the public policy exception in the 2005 revision to include the word “judgment.” More specifically, in that portion, I will argue that the addition of the word “judgment” in the revision was a better approach than the original language in the 1962 UFMJRA which limited the public policy exception to the underlying “cause of action” or “claim for