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Case of the Day: Sikhs For Justice v. Badal
The case of the day is Sikhs for Justice v. Badal (7th Cir. 2013). We considered an unrelated Sikhs for Justice case in March 2012. In today’s case, Sikhs for Justice accused Parkash Singh Badal, the Chief Minister of the state of Punjab, of overseeing police implicated in extrajudicial killings and torture in Punjab. The……
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Case of the Day: Callaway v. Kittler
The case of the day is Callaway v. Kittler (M.D. Fla. 2013). Carol Callaway alleged that Martin Kittler, who resided in the Czech Republic, had injured her in an automobile accident in Florida. She sued in the Osceloa County Circuit Court in Florida. She sought to serve process on Kittler by service on the Florida……
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New Paper on SSRN: Gurung v. Malhotra Is Wrongly Decided
Long-time readers will know that Gurung v. Malhotra, 279 F.R.D. 215 (S.D.N.Y. 2011), the 2011 decision on service of process by email, is my white whale. I have watched with dismay as a handful of new cases have cited Gurung in support of the erroneous position that service by e-mail is permissible in cases where……
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Case of the Day: Bravetti v. Liu
The case of the day is Bravetti v. Liu (D.N.J. 2013). The case was a shareholder derivative action brought by David Bravetti, a shareholder of American Oriental Bioengineering, Inc., against Tony Liu, Yanchun Li, Binsheng Li, Jun Min, Lawrence Wizel, Cosimo Patti, Xianmin Wang, Baiquing Zhang, Eileen Brody, who were officers or directors of the……