Month: April 2013

  • Event Announcement: Kennedy School Event on the Chevron Case

    I’ve just learned of an event to be held tomorrow at the Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Titled The Chevron Case in Ecuador: Maria Aguinda’s Fight to Bring a Major Corporation to Justice, the event features Andres Snaider of Nextant LLC and Chris Jochnick of Oxfam America. The event will be held……

  • Case of the Day: Hyundai Securities Co. v. Lee

    The case of the day is Hyundai Securities Co. v. Lee (Cal. Ct. App. 2013). Shareholders of Hyundai brought a derivative action on behalf of the corporation against Hyundai’s former CEO, Ik Chi Lee, in the Seoul Southern District Court. The claim was for securities fraud. The Korean court entered judgment in favor of Hyundai……

  • Case of the Day: de Csepel v. Hungary

    The case of the day is de Csepel v. Hungary (D.C. Cir. 2013). The case concerns the art collection of Baron Mór Litót Herzog, a “passionate Jewish art collector in pre-war Hungary.” Baron Herzog died in 1934, and his wife and then his children, Erzsébet (who married Alfonz Weiss de Csepel, hence the name of……

  • New! Social Sharing on Letters Blogatory

    Long-time readers will know that I have been fiercely and maybe ridiculously protective of personally-identifiable information belonging to Letters Blogatory readers. For example, I don’t use Google Analytics, relying instead on Piwik so that none of the analytics data I collect go to any third party. I don’t use a third-party email vendor, so those……

  • Reflections on the Boston Lockdown

    Update (4/22/13): Boston.com is reporting that Tsarnaev was charged in a sealed complaint and that a magistrate judge conducted his initial appearance at the BI. Assuming that the hearing went as initial appearances are supposed to go, the magistrate judge would have advised Tsarnaev of his rights, which brings the Miranda aspect of this story……