Month: January 2019

  • 2000 Posts!

    I hadn’t really noticed until it happened, but yesterday was the 2000th post here at Letters Blogatory! I started up in January 2011 with very little idea what a blog was, how to publish one, or what I was doing. Eight years later, we’re still going strong! I say we because there wouldn’t be a……

  • Case of the Day: Patrick’s Restaurant v. Singh

    The case of the day is Patrick’s Restaurant, LLC v. Singh (D. Minn. 2019). The case is in the genre of Hague Service Convention cases that I love to hate—cases following the lead of Gurung v. Malhotra, my white whale of international judicial assistance.

  • Case of the Day: Henry Schein v. Archer & White Sales

    They say that a new Supreme Court justice’s first opinion is usually a softball. So the fact that today’s case of the day, Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc. (S. Ct. 2019), was assigned to Justice Kavanaugh was probably a good indication of how the case was bound to come out: continuing……

  • Case of the Day: African Growth Corp. v. Angola

    The case of the day is African Growth Corp. v. Republic of Angola (D.D.C. 2018). The plaintiff was a US company in the real estate business in Luanda, Angola’s capital. Its claim was that Gen. Antonio Andrade and his son, Capt. Miguel Kenehele, with their “heavily-armed security detail,” had wrongfully seized and occupied some of……

  • Case of the Day: IDS Property Casualty Insurance Co. v. Gree USA

    The case of the day is IDS Property Casualty Insurance Co. v. Gree USA, Inc. (D. Minn. 2018). It’s another example of bad, clearly wrong decisions on the Hague Service Convention. Chad and Andrea Murphy, who lived in Minnesota, owned a dehumidifier manufactured by Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zuhai, a Chinese firm. It allegedly……