Case of the Day: Intercontinental Industries Corp. v. Luo
Our case of the day is Intercontinental Indus. Corp. v. Luo, Civ. A. No. 10-4174 (C.D. Cal. Jan. 20, 2011). Intercontinental sued Luo, the Communist Party Secretary of Hubei Province…
Our case of the day is Intercontinental Indus. Corp. v. Luo, Civ. A. No. 10-4174 (C.D. Cal. Jan. 20, 2011). Intercontinental sued Luo, the Communist Party Secretary of Hubei Province…
Gucci America v. Guess?, Inc., 271 F.R.D. 58 (S.D.N.Y. 2010). In a trademark infringement case, the plaintiff, an American affiliate of an Italian manufacturer, sought a protective order to prevent…
I've put a Topical Digest tab at the top of the Letters Blogatory homepage. It gives links to each of the cases we've covered, categorized by the kind of proceeding.…
From the Blogatory Lago Agrio desk, and from my home base here in Massachusetts, comes today's case of the day, In re Application of Chevron Corp., Civ. A. No. 10-MC-30022…
In my post on arbitral tribunals as "tribunals" under the judicial assistance statue, I raised the following objection to the cases holding that an arbitral tribunal is a "tribunal" for…
We have a little catching up to do, so here is a digest of a couple of recent cases that are probably not going to get top billing as cases…
Kudos to Jenna Godfrey of American Univerity Law School on her new article, Americanization of Discovery: Why Statutory Interpretation Bars 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a)'s Application In Private International Arbitration Proceedings,…
The case of the day, International Trading & Indus. Inv. Co. v. DynCorp Aerospace Tech., No. 09-791 (D.D.C. Jan. 21, 2011), is Judge Walton's second opinion on confirmation of an…
Germany is one of the jurisdictions most implacably opposed to U.S.-style pretrial discovery in civil cases, or so it seems to me. Hence the irony of Heraeus Kulzer, GmbH v.…
I'm putting together a Hague Service Convention application for Bermuda today for a pending case in the D. Mass. And it was 5F / -15C while I waited for my…