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Case of the Day: In re Catalyst Managerial Services
The case of the day is In re Catalyst Managerial Services, DMCC (2d Cir. 2017). The district court had granted Catalyst’s application to take discovery from several banks for use in a breach of contract action that Catalyst had brought against Libya Africa Investment Portfolio in the UK. LAIP’s main argument was that the discovery……
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Water Splash v. Menon: The Respondent’s Brief
The respondent has filed her brief in Water Splash v. Menon, the case on Article 10(a) of the Hague Service Convention. I am not going to comment at length on the details of the brief. May I gently suggest that if you’re talking about Plato’s theory of forms or John Finnis on natural law in……
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Case of the Day: In re Rainsy
The case of the day is In re Rainsy (N.D. Cal. 2017). Sam Rainsy, a Cambodian politician, and several other Cambodians had “alleg[ed] human rights violations before the International Criminal Court.” They brought an application for leave to take discovery from Chevron Corp. relating to the 2016 assassination of Cambodian government critic Kem Ley. They……
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See you in a week!
Readers, I’ll return with new posts for you on February 27. See you then!
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Water Splash: Notes on Volkswagen from the new ABA Treatise
The publication of the new ABA treatise, which I noted yesterday, reminded me that I had already written about the question I noted last month in my discussion of the government’s amicus brief in the Water Splash case, namely whether the Hague Service Convention applies to all judicial documents, or just to the summons and……