Author: Ted Folkman

  • See You In 2016

    Readers, I’ll have new posts for you beginning the week of January 4. Best wishes for a happy New Year!

  • Letters Blogatory in 2015

    Readers, here are the most read posts of the last year (excluding the blog’s home page, of course, and excluding index pages). Pietro Franzina’s post on the Recast of the Brussels I regulation tops the charts again.

  • Chief Justice Gants’s Remarks to the Islamic Society of Boston

    As a counterweight to the Trumpism that I decried in a recent post, I want to draw your attention to a speech that the Chief Justice of our Supreme Judicial Court, Ralph Gants, made at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center. The Chief Justice reached out to the ISBCC and asked for the opportunity……

  • Case of the Day: Pinnacle Packaging Co. v. Constantia Flexibles GmbH

    The case of the day is Pinnacle Packaging Co. v. Constantia Flexibles GmbH (N.D. Okla. 2015). Pinnacle and the other plaintiffs served a notice for the deposition of Thomas Unger, the CEO of Constantia, and for the depositions of corporate representatives of Constantia and One Equity Partners. Unger resides in Germany. Constantia’s offices are in……

  • Kuwait Airways Petitions DC Circuit For Review

    In my last post on the Kuwait Airways case, I noted that I hadn’t been able to find the airline’s “countersuit” against the Department of Transportation. “Countersuit” is, of course, the wrong word, but in fact the airline has petitioned the DC Circuit to review the DOT’s administrative decision. Eldad Gatt, the Israeli national who……