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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……
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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……
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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……
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Case of the Day: Edwards v. Nigeria
The case of the day is Edwards v. Federal Government of Nigeria (D. Mass. 2018). In 2013, hundreds of local governments in Nigeria sued the Nigerian federal government and three federal officials in the Federal High Court, seeking “to recover money allegedly owed to them.” Dr. Ted Iseghohi Edwards claimed that he was a consultant……
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Brexit Update: The UK’s Interesting COCA Accession
The United Kingdom deposited its instrument of accession to the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements yesterday. The UK is currently bound by the Convention, because the European Union approved the Convention in 2015. Under the terms of that approval, the Convention bound all EU states except Denmark. But with Brexit on the horizon,……