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The Israel Apartheid Report: Give Me A Break
When I was in college, a few friends and I took Richard Falk’s course on international relations. We were just undergraduates, and while we were majoring in politics, we were not concentrating in international relations, but rather in political theory. So we wanted what the course catalogue promised: an introduction to the field of international……
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Water Splash v. Menon: The Last Post Before The Argument
Just a few things to report on the Water Splash v. Menon case, which the Supreme Court will hear next week. First, here is the petitioner’s reply brief. I am not going to review the reply brief in detail.
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Case of the Day: Saleh v. Bush
The case of the day is Saleh v. Bush (9th Cir. 2017). Sundus Shaker Saleh was an Iraqi who became a refugee during the Iraq War when Kurdish forces aligned with the United States forced her to leave her home in 2003. She sued former President George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice,……
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Case of the Day: In re Rivada Networks
The case of the day is In re Application of Rivada Networks (E.D. Va. 2017). Rivada was an unsuccessful bidder for a Mexican government telecommunications contract. It claimed that the winning bidder, Altan, had received a copy of the government’s confidential bidding memorandum before the bid, thus rendering the bid process unfair. Rivada brought an……
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Blog of the Day: Asia in U.S. Courts
Readers, I’d like to introduce you to an interesting blog, Asia in U.S. Courts, written by Nathan Park. Nathan is of counsel to Kobre & Kim in Washington. Here is Nathan’s description of the blog: Asia in U.S. Courts is a blog for chronicling the judicial phenomenon of increasing importance: parties from Asia, litigating in……