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Case of the Day: Elfaridi v. Mercedes-Benz
The case of the day is Elfaridi v. Mercedes-Benz United States (E.D. Mo. 2018). Hend Aitoufella and Dean and Katherine Jarman brought a putative class action against Mercedes Benz USA, LLC and Daimler AG. Their claim was that a defect in Mercedes-Benz vehicles from 2003 to 2015 caused sunroofs to spontaneously shatter. Yikes! The plaintiffs……
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Case of the Day: Celgene Corp. v. Gupta
The case of the day is Celgene Corp. v. Gupta (D.N.J. 2018). Celgene sued Sushil K. Gupta, who resided in New Delhi, for trademark infringement and false designation of origin. Celgene sought a default judgment when Gupta didn’t answer the complaint.
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John McCain, 1936-2018
Letters Blogatory remembers John McCain, who died Saturday. Senator McCain, a real-life war hero and a lifelong public servant, was perhaps the last of his generation of Republican statesmen in the Senate. He was a conservative Republican, but he also spoke often about the importance of putting country above party. He was the most senior……
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From the Archives
Here, without comment, is a very interesting document, the Fourth Annual Report of the Commission on International Rules of Judicial Procedure, from the 1960s. I wanted to read it because I’ve got a case where I’m rebutting an argument that an obscure Massachusetts statute that mirrors § 1782 applies only to discovery in aid of sister-state litigation……
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Case of the Day: Daskin v. Knowles
The case of the day is Daskin v. Knowles (Del. 2018). The wife was a dual citizen of the US and Greece. She and the husband, a Greek citizen, married in Delaware in 1990 and lived together in Greece until 2015. In 2015, the wife moved back to Delaware permanently due to marital problems. She……