GUIMARAES

An action seeking recognition and enforcement of a foreign money judgment under the Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act is subject to the 10-year statute of limitations applicable to actions on sister state judgments (Code of Civil Procedure section 337.5, subdivision 3), rather than to the four-year catch-all statute of limitations in Code of Civil Procedure section 343.

On December 30, 2005, Renato Guimar-Brazilian lavyer, filed a complaint against Northrop Grumman Corporation. Guimaraes sought recognition and enforcement of a judgment for attorney fees rendered in Brazil. Guimaraes filed his first amended complaint, and summons was issued and filed on the first amended complaint, on May 12, 2006.

The judgment Guimaraes sought to enforce was rendered in Brazil on June 30, 2000. The judgment occurred in a lawsuit filed after the crash of a Brazilian aircraft in October 1996, in which 99 persons were killed. Many of the families of crash victims filed lawsuits in Orange County, but Northrop obtained a stay of those cases on forum non conveniens grounds, and agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of the Brazilian courts. Guimaraes and another Brazilian…