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Case of the Day: Deutsche Bank v. Sebastian Holdings
The case of the day is Deutsche Bank AG v. Sebastian Holdings, Inc. (Conn. Ct. App. 2017). Sebastian Holdings was a Turks and Caicos company. Deutsche Bank sued Sebastian in England on a claim relating to trading losses Sebastian had incurred in connection with a trading account it had opened with Deutsche Bank. The English……
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Case of the Day: Badawi v. Alesawy
The case of the day is Badawi v. Alesawy (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2017). I wrote about the case in 2012 and last year. Here was my description of the facts: The parties were married civilly in New York in 1998, and they had an Islamic wedding ceremony thereafter. As part of the religious ceremony, they……
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Case of the Day: Subotich v. Travelers Property Casualty Co.
The case of the day is Subotich v. Travelers Property Casualty Co. of America (E.D. Wis. 2017). Michael and Jennifer Subotich sued Matt Palazsynski, who was in China. They attempted service via the Central Authority, and when they received no response for a year, they moved for entry of a default judgment. Palazsynski submitted a……
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Case of the Day: Chukkapalli v. Mandava
The case of the day is Chukapalli v. Mandava (Tex. Ct. App. 2017). The case was a divorce case. The couple had resided in India, but the wife moved to Texas and then filed a divorce petition there. The wife’s counsel sought to serve the husband by personal delivery in India via a process server……
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Case of the Day: Getma v. Guinea
The case of the day is Getma v. Republic of Guinea (D.C. Cir. 2017). This was the appeal from the case of the day from June 17, 2016. Here was my description of the facts: