Month: August 2016

  • A Letters Blogatory Mobile App?

    Update: Early results are strongly negative. Thanks for the feedback! I’ll take a pass on this for the foreseeable future. Readers, they say that mobile apps are the future of the Internet. Who knows if that’s true. What I do know is that in the last year about a quarter of everyone who has visited……

  • Case of the Day: Chevron v. Donziger

    Case of the Day: Chevron v. Donziger

    Steven Donziger, the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ US lawyer, was caught on tape telling members of his litigation team: “Facts do not exist, facts are created.” What does that mean? There’s the nefarious interpretation of course—lawyers should make up the facts they need to win a case, without regard to what’s true. Everyone should reject that……

  • Case of the Day: SiOnyx v. Hamamatsu Photonics

    The case of the day is SiOnyx LLC v. Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (D. Mass. 2016). SiOnyx and the President and Fellows of Harvard College brought an action against Hamamatsu Photonics, a Japanese corporation, and its American subsidiary, Hamamatsu Corp., and others. The plaintiffs effected service on Hamamatsu Corp., but they conceded that they had not……

  • Update on Boal v. United States: The Bergadhl Case

    Readers, as promised, I am keeping my eye on the Boal v. United States case, which I wrote about last week. After I posted, Boal filed a brief that strengthened his case somewhat insofar as it asserts that he had made promises of confidentiality to Sgt. Bergdahl. But my view is unchanged.

  • Case of the Day: Knaggs v. Yahoo!

    The case of the day is Knaggs v. Yahoo! Inc. (N.D. Cal. 2016). Do you remember McArthur Wheeler, the bank robber who robbed a bank in broad daylight with no disguise? He was caught immediately after the police broadcast the security footage showing him holding up the bank. When they arrived to arrest him, he……