Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Author: Ted Folkman

  • One Last Site Change (For Now): Improved Accessibility!

    Readers, you are probably getting tired of posts about Letters Blogatory adopting protocols, improving data protection, and so forth. Bear with me for one more post, as I announce a new accessibility feature. You should now see a floating toolbar with two icons on the left of your screen (unless you are reading on your……

  • Letters Blogatory Joins the Fediverse

    Readers, I am happy to announce that Letters Blogatory is now using ActivityPub, the protocol that powers Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse. The Fediverse is a lot of things to a lot of people, but to me it is a way of microblogging, similar to Twitter, except that there is no algorithm showing……

  • Case of the Day: Doe v. d’Espalungue d’Arros

    The case of the day is Doe v. d’Espalungue d’Arros (W.D. La. 2023). The claims in the case arose out of an alleged sexual assault at a church retreat organized by the “Ragin’ Cajun Catholics,” the college ministry of Our Lady of Wisdom Catholic Church at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The defendant, Edouard d’Espalungue……

  • Case of the Day: dmarcian v. DMARC Advisor

    The case of the day is dmarcian, Inc. v. DMARC Advisor BV (W.D.N.C. 2023). One of the big problems in email is distinguishing real emails from emails that appear to come from a particular domain but are fake. I can set up an email server to announce that the emails it sends are from any……

  • Case of the Day: Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway

    The case of the day is Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. (S. Ct. 2023). I love this case. On my very first day of law school, my very first class was civil procedure. The professor was the excellent Martha Minow. She told a story about running into someone down on his luck. He greeted……