Author: Ted Folkman

  • Letters Blogatory Turns Three!

    Tomorrow is Letters Blogatory’s third birthday. Where has the time gone? I’m taking a break from my regular coverage today to say thanks to my readers. As anyone who blogs knows, it’s a labor of love whose main rewards are the pleasure of writing about things you find interesting and the pleasure of making connections……

  • Some Interesting Papers

    I want to draw readers’ attention to a few recent papers of interest. First, John F. Coyle, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, has published Friendship Treaties ≠ Judgments Treaties, 112 Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 49 (2013). From the introduction: It is hornbook law that the United……

  • Case of the Day: In re Application of Ontario Principals’ Council

    The case of the day is In re Application of Ontario Principals’ Council (E.D. Cal. 2013). This is another § 1782 case arising out of a Canadian defamation action that I covered late last year. As in the earlier case, the judge granted the application after conducting an Intel analysis but refused the applicant’s request……

  • Lago Agrio: What About The Ghostwriting?

    It’s important to distinguish between three kinds of wrongdoing Chevron alleges in the Lago Agrio case. First is the ghostwriting of the Cabrera report and the concealment of the communications and ties between the supposedly independent Cabrera and Donziger and his team. Second is the supposed bribe of the judge in the first instance court.……

  • Bitte stimmen Sie für Letters Blogatory!

    Letters Blogatory has been nominated for best law blog of 2014 in the Ausland (foreign) category by Johannes Zöttl’s Kartellblog, a German-language blog covering, as the name suggests, antitrust law. Clearly Dr. Zöttl is more discerning than the editors of the ABA Blawg Review! Mustn’t grumble. In any case, I hope you will take a……