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By Ted Folkman

Case of the Day: PNC Bank v. Baglien

The case of the day is PNC Bank v. Baglien (S.D. Tex. 2024). Friend of Letters Blogatory Maggie Gardner has a good post up about the case at the Transnational Litigation Blog. PNC sought to serve Baglien by process server in Calgary after a “skip trace” found an address for him there, but the effort……

November 17, 2024
Case of the Day: Puris v. TikTok

The case of the day is Puris v. TikTok Inc. (S.D.N.Y. 2024). Puris sued TikTok, Inc., a US company, and ByteDance Ltd., a Chinese company with a registered address in the Cayman Islands, for employment discrimination and related claims. TikTok waived service of process, and Puris served process on ByteDance Ltd. in the Cayman Islands.……

November 15, 2024
Case of the Day: Zobay v. MTN Group Ltd.

The case of the day is Zobay v. MTN Group Ltd. (E.D.N.Y. 2024). The claim is that the defendants, including ZTE and Huawei, conspired with foreign terrorist organizations “targeting Americans in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Europe.” The plaintiffs brought claims under the Anti-Terrorism Act on behalf of people “killed or wounded while serving……

November 11, 2024
Readers’ Update: Social & Search

Readers, I have a couple of Letters Blogatory updates for you, one of which comes with a request. Social media. Until about two years ago, I was quite active on Twitter (when it was Twitter) and engaged with readers there probably more often than here on the website. My Twitter/X account still exists, but I……

November 11, 2024
Case of the Day: Johnson v. Settino

The case of the day is Johnson v. Settino (Mass. 2024). I love this case. Johnson and Settino began dating in 2016, and in 2017 they were engaged to be married. Johnson gave Settino a $70,000 engagement ring. That is quite some ring. To make a long story short, Johnson broke off the engagement but……

November 9, 2024

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