Tag: arbitration

  • Case of the Day: Voltage Pictures v. Gussi

    The case of the day is Voltage Pictures LLC v. Gussi S.A. de C.V. (9th Cir. 2024). Voltage was an LA film production company. Gussi was a Mexican film distributor. The two companies had an agreement for the distribution of Ava in Latin America. Who is Ava, you ask? She is played by Jessica Chastain.……

  • Case of the Day: Payward v. Chechetkin

    The case of the day is Payward, Inc. v. Chechetkin, [2023] EWHC 1780 (Comm). Friend of Letters Blogatory Alexander Shirtcliff of Blake Morgan instructed counsel for Chechetkin, a British national living in England. Chechetkin signed up for an account with the Kraken online cryptocurrency exchange. His contract—a clickwrap contract— was with Payward Ltd. The contract……

  • Case of the Day: American Graphics Institute v. Noble Desktop NYC

    The case of the day is American Graphics Institute, LLC v. Noble Desktop NYC, LLC (D. Mass. 2023). Noble was a consultant to AGI. The claim was that Noble had taken advantage of its position to learn about AGI’s “internal sales, marketing, promotional tactics, technical processes, and strategies,” to gain “access to AGI’s copyrighted works……

  • Strategy of the Day: Variations in State Arbitration Law

    The Federal Arbitration Act preempts state arbitration law, but not entirely. State law that is inconsistent on the FAA’s rules about when an agreement to arbitrate is enforceable or about when awards must be enforced are preempted. But state law that relates to some procedural matters in arbitration is not preempted even when the FAA……

  • Update: the Briefs in Chiejina v. Nigeria

    I reported on the decision denying a jurisdictional motion to dismiss in Chiejina v. Nigeria, an award enforcement case I’m handling, back in August 2022. The dispute involved breaches of a contract for construction of gully erosion control structures in Nigeria’s Imo state. The parties have now filed their briefs in the DC Circuit (Nigeria’s……