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  • Unmeritorious Case Of The Day: Missouri v. China

    I’m keeping an eye on Missouri v. People’s Republic of China, a case just filed in the Eastern District of Missouri. The claim is against the Chinese government and several ministries and local governments, as well as the Communist Party of China and two institutes whose status is unclear, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and…

    April 27, 2020

  • Case of the Day: Feliz v. MacNeill

    The case of the day is Feliz v. MacNeill (1st Cir. 2012). The decision is by Justice Souter, who sometimes sits by designation on First Circuit panels. Dr. Briain MacNeill, a physician, treated Santa Encarnacion a few days before her death, and her administratrix, Sobeida Feliz, sued him for medical malpractice. Feliz sued in the…

    August 30, 2012

  • Case of the Day: Opati v. Sudan

    Here is a guest post from friend of Letters Blogatory Minyao Wang on Opati v. Sudan, the Supreme Court’s latest look at the FSIA. If I can editorialize about his last paragraph for a second: I don’t think that we should encourage Congress to think carefully about retroactivity when putting together a bill to allow…

    May 19, 2020

  • Case of the Day : French Cour de cassation, May 12th 2012 (N°11-15.508)

    This is the first guest-post by Fanny Cornette, a member of Letters Blogatory’s IJA Brigade. Fanny holds positions at the Université de Rouen and the Université du Havre I would like to thank Ted for welcoming me as a French correspondent for his blog. For my first post, I would like to give an example…

    August 29, 2012

  • Case of the Day: Day v. Cornèr Bank (Overseas) Ltd.

    Judge Lamberth, describing the allegations in the Case of the Day, Day v. Cornèr Bank (Overseas) Ltd. (D.D.C. 2011), wrote that they detailed “a sordid affair straight out of a Hollywood script—or at least a second-rate mystery novel.” The plaintiff was Tonya Kay Day. According to Day’s complaint, several years ago her mother, Lavera Jean Foelgner, told…

    June 21, 2011
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