Author: Ted Folkman

  • Tony Bennett, 1926-2023

    Tony Bennett, 1926-2023

    Farewell to Tony Bennett, one of the greatest performers of the Great American Songbook. I don’t know what the experts would say, but to me, these songs, from Broadway, jazz standards, and even movies, are are our Puccini, our great popular art. They are as American as baseball, and Tony Bennett is the Joe DiMaggio……

  • Case of the Day: Ben Haim v. Doe

    Case of the Day: Ben Haim v. Doe

    The case of the day is Ben Haim v. Doe (D.D.C. 2023). Tamar Ben Haim, who lives in Jerusalem, alleged that she was assaulted by an unknown, off-duty agent with the Secret Service who was on the advance team preparing for President Biden’s visit to Israel in 2022. Following the alleged assault, she claimed, the……

  • South West Terminal v. Achter Land & Cattle: The Case of the Thumbs Up Emoji

    The case of the day is South West Terminal Ltd. v. Achter Land & Cattle Ltd., 2023 SKKB 116, a Saskatchewan breach of contract case. It’s not a typical Letters Blogatory case, but it’s fun, and I expect to see it in contract casebooks in the future. Law students my remember it as the “thumbs……

  • 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……