Author: Ted Folkman

  • ILW Call for Proposals

    Readers, the International Law Students Association is sponsoring International Law Week on in New York City on October 19-21, 2017. The ILSA has extended the deadline on its call for panel proposals to May 15. Check it out!

  • The Supreme Court, Service of Process, and Legal History: Part 3 of a Letters Blogatory Polemic

    This is the third and final post in my series on service of process and legal history. I encourage you to read the first and second posts! Why am I writing about ancient methods of service of process, and Supreme Court references to them? Here is my basic idea.

  • Case of the Day: Phoenix Process Equipment Co. v. Capital Equipment & Trading

    The case of the day is Phoenix Process Equipment Co. v. Capital Equipment & Trading Corp. (W.D. Ky. 2017). The decision was on a motion to reconsider the ruling we covered back in February. Here was my statement of the facts:

  • Case of the Day: Kelly v. Vesnaver

    The case of the day is Kelly v. Vesnaver (E.D.N.Y. 2017). The case involved a dispute about alleged conversion and breach of fiduciary duty relating to the plaintiff’s Chinese bonds. The plaintiff served process by delivering the documents to a PO box at a UPS Store in Florida. Several of the defendants were residents of……

  • Case to Watch: Mohamad v. Rajoub

    I’m keeping my eyes on an interesting new case filed in New York: Mohamad v. Rajoub. It raises lots of key Letters Blogatory issues. Here is the case according to the allegations of the complaint: Asid Mohamad is the representative of the estate of Azzam Rahim. Rahim was a US citizen of Palestinian descent. He……