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CTB v. Twitter again
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 morning after realizing that my SCA analysis missed the mark. (This is one of the hazards of covering current developments on a daily basis!)
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Case of the Day: CTB v. Twitter, Inc.
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 player (I wouldn’t have any particular compunction about reprinting the name if I knew it, but I don’t). CTB sued a British newspaper and the……
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Case of the Day: Linsen International Ltd. v. Humpuss Sea Transport
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. HST failed to pay. The charter agreement had an arbitration clause calling for arbitration in London. During the arbitration, HST “attempted to reorganize its corporate……
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Case of the Day: Gramercy Insurance Co. v. Kavanagh
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 action. The case of the day, Gramercy Insurance Co. v. Kavanagh (N.D. Tex. 2011), is a case in point. Gramercy sued Kennedy and others……
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Case of the Day: Davoyan v. Republic of Turkey
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 their citizenship, brutally deported, had their property seized and expropriated by the Turkish government” during the Ottoman period. The claims were for imposition of a……