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Case of the Day: Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co. v. ProSight Speciality Management Co.
The case of the day is Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co. v. ProSight Specialty Management Co. (S.D.N.Y. 2012). ProSight was an aviation insurance company, and Aioi was its reinsurer. The reinsurance contracts had an arbitration clause requiring arbitration in New York. The parties had also made an agreement to “make good-faith efforts to limit the……
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Belfast Project: Update on the High Court Hearing
The High Court in Belfast has held a hearing on whether or not to extend the injunction barring the UK authorities from receiving materials produced by the US in response to the UK’s request under the two countries’ mutual legal assistance treaty. The BBC is reporting that the judge has set another hearing for next……
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Case of the Day: Box v. Dallas Mexican Consulate General
The case of the day is Box v. Dallas Mexican Consulate General (5th Cir. 2012). Blake Box alleged that in 2006, Mexico’s former ambassador, Enriqué Hubbard Urrea, and its assistant consul, Hugo Juarez-Carillo, hired Box to help the Mexican consulate find new office space in Dallas. Box located a building within a three-building complex, and……
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Case of the Day: EM Ltd. v. Republic of Argentina
The case of the day is EM Ltd. v. Republic of Argentina (2d Cir. 2012). This is yet another installment in NML Capital’s efforts to collect from Argentina on a judgment it obtained in New York following Argentina’s default on its sovereign debt. In today’s case, NML had served subpoenas on Bank of America and……
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Martyniszyn on Transnational Discovery in Antitrust Cases
I wanted to call attention to an interesting new paper by Marek Martyniszyn, a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a friend of Letters Blogatory, titled Discovery and Evidence in Transnational Antitrust Cases: Current Framework and the Way Forward, available on SSRN. Here……