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Un an de français à mon actif!
Je viens de finir ma première année d’apprentissage du français! I’ve been using Duo Lingo, which I will tell you is fun to use and helpful. Progress has been slow: I knew enough to know how to write that I’ve just done something, that finir ma première année is better than terminer mon première an,……
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Case of the Day: South32 Chile v. Sumtomo
The case of the day is South32 Chile Copper Holdings Pty Ltd v. Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2024). The case was for breach of contract; it had to do with “profits realized from operations at a Chilean gold mine.” South32 sought issuance of letters of request to three tax and financial advisory……
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October 7, 2024
It has been one year since the October 7 atrocities. Hamas still holds 101 hostages in Gaza. For a year, the malice of some towards Israel and the Jewish people, the willful, gleeful distortions of history, and the hypocrisy of national, international, academic, humanitarian, and journalistic institutions has been on full display. Just as in……
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Case of the Day: DraftKings v. Hermalyn
The case of the day is DraftKings Inc. v. Hermalyn (1st Cir. 2024). Hermalyn, who lived in New Jersey, worked for DraftKings, the Boston-based sports betting company. He mostly worked in New Jersey and New York, but he was in Massachusetts for work about once every six weeks. He had an employment agreement with DraftKings,……
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The Burden to Show Foreign Sovereign Immunity
Bill Dodge has an excellent post up at the Transnational Litigation Blog that asks who has the burden of demonstrating that a foreign state is, or is not, immune from suit under the doctrine of foreign sovereign immunity. On the one hand, the question seems settled: most circuits, including the DC Circuit and the Second……