Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Month: March 2012

  • Keep It Classy, Chevron

    I am not a partisan in the Chevron/Ecuador case, and having read a lot of the papers filed in the various proceedings, I can say that I admire the work the lawyers on both sides of the cases (I should really say the three sides of the cases, as Ecuador itself is a party to…

  • Case of the Day: Advanced Aerofoil Technologies v. Todaro

    The case of the day is Advanced Aerofoil Technologies AG v. Todaro (S.D.N.Y. 2011). The decision doesn’t go over the facts of the case; the complaint was for trade secret misappropriation. Some of the defendants were Americans, others were German or Swiss. The plaintiff sought leave to serve the European defendants by courier (presumably, by…

  • Liberty Media v. Sheng Gan Revisited: Service On The Web?

    Julian Ku recently reported on a High Court decision permitting service of process by Facebook. Today’s case of the day, Liberty Media Holdings, LLC v. Sheng Gan (D. Colo. 2012), a follow-up to our case of the day from January 30, 2012, is a slightly more sophisticated variation on the same theme. In the earlier…