Case of the Day: In re Crystal Power Co.
I ignore the Letters Blogatory Scope of Coverage today in order to write about In re Crystal Power Co. (5th Cir. 2011) [Initial Decision] [On Rehearing]. Can you blame me?…
I ignore the Letters Blogatory Scope of Coverage today in order to write about In re Crystal Power Co. (5th Cir. 2011) [Initial Decision] [On Rehearing]. Can you blame me?…
Today we revisit the case of the day from April 5, 2011, Tamimi Global Co. v. Kellogg Brown & Root. KBR had a US government contract in Iraq. The case arose…
We return to the Lago Agrio case with today's case of the day, Chevron Corp. v. Shefftz (D. Mass. 2010). In this installment, Chevron sought leave to depose and take…
In a couple of recent cases of the day (Tuckerbrook v. Banerjee and Davoyan v. Turkey), plaintiffs who had reason to question whether their efforts to effect service of process had been…
The case of the day, Tuckerbrook Alternative Investments, LP v. Banerjee (D. Mass. 2010), involves an attempt to serve process in India. Tuckerbrook was a registered investment adviser. Banerjee, a…
For those of you who read Letters Blogatory via a feedreader or who subscribe via email: please note that I have subtantially changed the CTB v. Twitter post from this…
The case of the day, CTB v. Twitter, Inc., comes to Letters Blogatory courtesy of a hat-tip from the Trial Warrior Blog. "CTB" is a pseudonym for a British soccer…
The Case of the Day is Linsen International Ltd. v. Humpuss Sea Transport Pte Ltd. (S.D.N.Y. 2011). Linsen and the other plaintiffs were shipowners who chartered their ships to HST.…
Memo to foreign defendants: If you want to avoid service of process by concealing your foreign address from the plaintiff, don't hire a US lawyer to enter an appearance in…
The case of the day, Davoyan v. Republic of Turkey (C.D. Cal. 2011), is a putative class action by Armenians and their heirs who claim that they were "deprived of…