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Case of the Day: Alpha Bank v. Yakovlev
The case of the day is AO Alpha Bank v. Yakovlev (Cal. Ct. App. 2018). Alpha, a Russian bank, loaned money in 2007 and 2008 to Trial Trading House, LLC, a Russian firm. Oleg Yakovlev personally guaranteed the loan on terms set out in a separate surety agreement. The surety agreement chose the Meschansky District……
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Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018
The great physicist Stephen Hawking died yesterday, as I’m sure you know by now. Hawking, and in particular his 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, got me interested in cosmology as a teenager, and while I’m a landlubber in any hard science, the interest has never worn off. I know that Hawking was important……
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More on the ABA’s Ethics of Blogging Opinion
A few days ago I noted the ABA’s new ethics opinion on law blogs. After reading the opinion, I removed the few posts at Letters Blogatory about my own cases while I gave the opinion some more thought.
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Case of the Day: Blizzard Entertainment v. Bossland
The case of the day is Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. v. Bossland GmbH, from the Landgericht Leipzig. It came to my attention thanks to eagle-eyed reader Lukas Heinemann. Blizzard had a $8 million default judgment against Bossland from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The case arose out of alleged violations of……
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Paper of the Day: Richard Garnett on “Precarious Employment”
Today’s paper of the day is Precarious Employment? Varying Approaches to Foreign Sovereign Immunity in Labor Disputes, by Richard Garnett of Melbourne Law School. The paper provides a really interesting and useful overview of the cases and approaches to foreign sovereign immunity as it applies to claims brought by employees of foreign states. Well worth……