Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Month: September 2015

  • Case of the Day: Persh v. Petersen

    The case of the day is Persh v. Petersen (S.D.N.Y. 2015). Neil Persh lived in New York, and Aldo Petersen lived in Denmark. The two were friends and business partners. Persh sued Petersen for breach of an oral contract, and Petersen moved to dismiss for insufficient service of process.

  • Case of the Day: AVR Communications v. American Hearing Systems

    The case of the day is AVR Communications, Ltd. v. American Hearing Systems, Inc. (Minn. Ct. App. 2005). American Hearing Systems, a Minnesota firm in the hearing aid business, got into a contract dispute with AVR, an Israeli firm. In 2007, AVR commenced an arbitration against AHS in Israel that resulted in an award in…

  • Lago Agrio: Are The Disclosures About Doug Cassel’s Work for Chevron Sufficient?

    Readers, I feel a sense of responsibility when someone who contributes to Letters Blogatory gets in some sort of trouble on account of what he or she has written here. The first instance of this was the case of Allison Morris, a journalist with the Irish News. Those of you who followed the Belfast Project…

  • Lago Agrio: Chevron Settles With H5

    Chevron has settled yet another claim against a business that was associated with the Lago Agrio plaintiffs and their lawsuit in Ecuador. H5 was an e-discovery and litigation services firm that owned a small percentage interest in the Ecuadoran judgment. No cash changed hands, but H5 transferred its interest in the judgment to Chevron and…

  • Thoughts on Yaiguaje

    Earlier today I published Doug Cassel’s comment on Yaiguaje. Here are a few of my own thoughts on the case: