Month: February 2015

  • A New Draft Of The Judgments Convention: Is It Good For America?

    The Hague Conference has published a provisional edition of the Report on the Fourth Meeting of the Working Group on the Judgments Project, with a preliminary draft text. Bloggers including Claudia Madrid Martínez at Cartas Blogatorias and Pietro Franzina at Aldricus have already noted the new document. I know many American lawyers are skittish about……

  • Case of the Day: Safra v. Palestinian Authority

    While I don’t generally write about personal jurisdiction cases, the irony in Safra v. Palestinian Authority (D.D.C. 2015), is too good to pass up, especially in light of the verdict in Sokolow v. Palestinian Authority yesterday. In Sokolow, the jury found that the Palestinian Authority was liable for more than $200 million to victims of……

  • Case of the Day: In re Interest of E.H.

    The case of the day is In re Interest of E.H. (Tex. Ct. App. 2014). Sara and Shlomo Hamo were married in Israel in the 1980s. In 1992, Shlomo left the family and moved to the United States—first to South Carolina and then to Texas. In 1993, Sara obtained a child support order in Israel.……

  • Case of the Day: Kim v. Lakeside Adult Family Home

    The case of the day is Kim v. Lakeside Adult Family Home (Wash. Ct. App. 2015). Ho Im Bae was an inpatient resident of the Lakeside Adult Family Home, a nursing home. She died of a morphine overdose, and her death was ruled a homicide. The personal representative of her estate, Esther Kim, sued several……

  • RSS Feed Not Working

    Readers, as some of you have reported to me, the Letters Blogatory RSS feed (and the Cartas Blogatorias RSS feed) do not seem to be working properly. If I point my browser to https://lettersblogatory.com/feed/, I can see the posts, but it seems that folks who use other feed readers are having trouble. I’m sorry for……