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Two Developments on the Restatements
Readers, I want to call to your attention two important developments in the Restatements of the Law that will be of interest. I’m not going to comment on these developments here, though I may come back to them in later posts.
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Lago Agrio: Chevron’s Brief in Opposition to Cert.
Chevron has filed its brief in opposition to Steven Donziger’s petition for certiorari. Ted Olson and company have, as one would expect, produced a high-quality brief to stand against the similarly high-quality brief submitted by Deepak Gupta.
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Memorial Day 2017
Letters Blogatory honors America’s fallen servicemen and servicewomen on Memorial Day.
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Case of the Day: National Casualty Co. v. Western Express
The case of the day is National Casualty Co. v. Western Express, Inc. (W.D. Okla. 2017). National Casualty sued Victoria Cardenas, a resident of Mexico. The court granted leave to serve process on Cardenas by email to her US counsel. Cardenas moved to dismiss for insufficient service of process, arguing that under the Hague Service……
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Case of the Day: Water Splash v. Menon
The case of the day is Water Splash v. Menon (S. Ct. 2017). The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, put to rest the circuit split about whether Article 10(a) of the Hague Service Convention permits service of process by mail. Happily, the state and federal courts in the United States are all now on……