Author: Ted Folkman

  • Case of the Day: Charleston Aluminum, LLC v. Energomex, S.A. de C.V.

    I love today’s case of the day, Charleston Aluminum, LLC v. Energomex, S.A. de C.V. (D.S.C. 2013), because it deals with the rarely-construed Article 3 of the Hague Service Convention. Charleston Aluminum sued Energomex, a Mexican company; the facts of the case are not apparent from the decision. Charleston filed a “motion for Hague service,”……

  • Questions for Chevron

    Today Letters Blogatory welcomes back Doug Cassel, Professor of Law at Notre Dame and an advocate for Chevron here on Letters Blogatory and elsewhere, including at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Doug gives us his view and, I presume, Chevron’s view) of the evidence that corroborates the Guerra Declaration. I offered an equal guest-posting……

  • Lago Agrio: Did The Plaintiffs Buy the Judgment?

    In responding to the Declaration of former Ecuadorian Judge Alberto Guerra—who claims to have taken thousands of dollars from the plaintiffs to fix the outcome in the Lago Agrio litigation against Chevron—Ted Folkman is judicious. While reporting Guerra’s allegations and crediting Chevron’s lawyers for ferreting them out, Ted’s first reaction is that “I don’t trust……

  • Case of the Day: In re Cathode Ray Tube Antitrust Litigation

    The case of the day is In re Cathode Ray Tube Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal. 2013). The main multi-district litigation involves antitrust claims against cathode ray tube manufacturers. Sharp Corp., an electronics manufacturer, was a plaintiff in a similar litigation in Korea against Korean CRT manufacturers. Sharp sought leave under 28 USC § 1782 to……

  • Case of the Day: Kita v. Superior Court

    The case of the day is Kita v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County (Cal. Ct. App. 2013). Takahito and Kanako Kita were Japanese nationals who were married in Japan in 2003. They had two children, a son and a daughter, both born in Japan. In 2008, Takahito’s employer transferred him to its California office.……