Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Month: April 2014

  • Case of the Day: Global Material Technologies v. Dazheng Metal Fibre Co.

    The case of the day is Global Material Technologies, Inc. v. Dazheng Metal Fibre Co. (N.D. Ill. 2014). GMT was in the business of producing and selling metallic wool products. It alleged that it owned a 25% stake in Dazheng, a Chinese firm which was in the same business. GMT ultimately stopped producing some products…

  • Paper of the Day: Coyle on Judgments Reciprocity

    In Monday’s post I mentioned John Coyle’s new paper, Rethinking Judgments Reciprocity, which is forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review, but it’s worth its own post. The main point of the paper is to provide a model for thinking about whether to include a reciprocity requirement in judgment recognition statutes. But what really stands…

  • Lago Agrio: FOIA Update

    The latest batch of FOIA documents from the State Department have arrived. Here are some highlights:

  • Case of the Day: Elobied v. Baylock

    The case of the day is Elobied v. Baylock (E.D. Pa. 2014). Hashim Elobied sued Trescott Baylock for breach of an oral contract for the purchase and sale of a Bentley Continental GT. Let me just pause to marvel at an oral contract for the purchase of a Bentley. I’m not sure which law applies…

  • Thoughts on Greg Shill’s Judgment Arbitrage

    Greg Shill, now a visiting assistant professor of law at the University of Denver and formerly on the Chevron team at Gibson Dunn, has written a very interesting paper, Ending Judgment Arbitrage: Jurisdictional Competition and the Enforcement of Foreign Money Judgments in the United States, 54 Harv. J. Int’l L. 459 (2013). The paper has…