Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Month: July 2013

  • Recent Comments Gone Missing

    Readers, comments to posts dated after May 22, 2013, have vanished into the ether. If yours is one of them, my apologies! I’m not sure what happened. I am not going to try to restore from my backups in order to avoid making matters worse somehow.

  • Case of the Day: SerVaas Inc. v. Republic of Iraq

    The case of the day is SerVaas Inc. v. Republic of Iraq (S.D.N.Y. 2013). The underlying case was for recognition and enforcement of a judgment of the Paris Commercial Court. We covered the decision on the merits in February 2012. In short, SerVass won. It then sought to take post-judgment discovery. In today’s decision, SerVass……

  • Case of the Day: Application of Setraco Nigeria Ltd.

    The case of the day is In re Application of Setraco Nigeria Ltd. (M.D. Fla. 2013). Setraco Nigeria Ltd., an engineering company in Ahuja, Nigeria, alleged that in 2012 it discovered that two of its employees, Michel Nehme and Bechara Karam, had incorporated entities using the Setraco name in the United States and Canada without……

  • Case of the Day: Lui-Dix v. Holder

    The case of the day is Lui-Dix v. Holder (7th Cir. 2013). Chia-I Lui-Dix was a Taiwan national. In 1996, she and her first husband, Yu-Ping Lin (who later died), were tried in Taiwan for violation of Taiwan’s Drug Eradication Act. The trial lasted fifteen minutes. The only witness was the chief of police; Lui-Dix……

  • Please Nominate Letters Blogatory For The 2013 ABA Blawg 100!

    Readers, as I have for the past two years, I am asking you to nominate Letters Blogatory for the ABA’s Blawg 100, its list of the 100 best legal blogs. Your votes and support put me over the top last year, and I am hoping we can do it again in 2013. Here’s a short……