Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Author: Ted Folkman

  • My database is too big

    Readers, for nearly fifteen years, I have been giving you links to PDFs of the court decisions I write about. And I have been hosting those PDFs on my own server. The RECAP project was very new when I started, and I did not hear of it for several years. The upshot is that I……

  • Case of the Day: Sillam v. Labaton Sucharow

    The case of the day is Sillam v. Labaton Sucharow LLP (S.D.N.Y. 2024). Sillam was a French businessman. According to his complaint, he and Descroubres, who was predecessor in interest to Sillam’s fellow plaintiff, Saulnier, had a fee-splitting agreement with Labaton Sucharow. Sillam was to get 15% of Labanon’s earnings from clients that Sillam referred……

  • The NYT article on UNRWA is a doozy

    I am fascinated by yesterday’s article in the Times about UNRWA in Gaza. Here are some of the key points. When I read reporting like this, I am aghast at the UN’s see-no-evil, hear-no-evil approach to UNRWA. When Israel alleged that twelve UNRWA staffers had taken part in the October 7 massacre, the UN issued……

  • Case of the Day: Commonwealth v. Karen Read

    The case of the day is Commonwealth v. Read (Mass. Super. Ct. 2024). This is not a typical Letters Blogatory case, but it has been in the headlines here in Massachusetts and, I think, elsewhere in America. I’m curious to know whether any readers abroad have heard of it! And there is a connection to……

  • Case of the Day: Wikeley v. Kea Investments

    The case of the day is Wikeley v. Kea Investments, Ltd., [2024] NZCA 609. I learned of it from a post at Conflict of Laws by Maria Hook of the University of Otago. Kenneth Wikeley sued Kea Investments in Kentucky for breach of contract. The contract in question was a Coal Funding and JV Investment……