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Letters Blogatory Congratulates Mariano Rivera
My hat is off to Mariano Rivera, the great closer, who just became the first player ever to be elected unanimously to the Hall of Fame on his first ballot. Rivera will always be best known here in Boston for his sportsmanlike tip of the hat to the Fenway crowd in the 2005 season opener,……
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Case of the Day: Fourte International v. Pin Shine Industrial
The case of the day is Fourte International Ltd. BVI v. Pin Shine Industrial Co. (S.D. Cal. 2019). Fourte brought an action against Suzhou Pinshine Technology Co., Suzhou Sunshine Technology Co., Ltd., and Pin Shine Industrial Co., and Bobbin & Tooling Electronics International Company of BVI. It sought leave to serve Suzhou Pinshine and Suzhou……
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Case of the Day: New Prime Inc. v. Oliveiera
I hope my post on Monday didn’t mislead you. I suggested that parties arguing in favor of arbitration generally win in the Supreme Court. But as today’s case, New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira (S. Ct. 2019), shows, they don’t always win. Oliveira was an independent contractor working as a truck driver for New Prime, an……
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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……
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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.