Opinion ID: 2750493
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Heading: Adequacy of the Colombian Forum

Text: Finally, we turn to the adequacy of the foreign forum. Ungaro-Benages, 379 F.3d at 1238. The district court (Judge Rea) originally reasoned that “federal courts will not review foreign judgments unless the parties challenging that 66 MUJICA V. AIRSCAN judgment demonstrate that it was unfair.” Mujica I, 381 F. Supp. 2d at 1163 (citing Hilton, 159 U.S. at 202–03). It held that the showing of an “adequate alternative forum” was a “necessary condition to apply the doctrine of international comity.” Id. It then concluded that Colombia was an inadequate forum because Colombian law would not permit a second recovery in addition to the judgment Plaintiffs won against the Colombian government in Mario Galvis Gelves, et al. v. The Nation. See id. at 1147–48. On remand in 2010, we directed the district court (Judge Wu) to consider the prudential exhaustion issue and the effect of the Galvis Gelves and Romero Pradilla matters, a directive which necessarily required it to reevaluate the adequacy of the alternative forum. With the benefit of the subsequent Colombian decisions, Judge Wu came to a different