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Letters Blogatory Special Editorial: Slow Down on House of Lords Reform
It is looking increasingly likely that the UK is going to reform the House of Lords, which in practice seems to mean changing the Parliament into a bicameral (mostly) elected legislature, with a senate-like upper house, and the abolition of the right of hereditary peers to sit in the upper house. There is a long……
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Case of the Day: Application of Consorcio Ecuatoriano de Telecomunicaciones S.A.
The case of the day is Application of Consorcio Ecuatoriano de Telecomunicaciones S.A. (11th Cir. 2012). CONCEL was a cell phone company. Jet Air Service Equador S.A. had a contract with CONCEL under which JASE provided transportation logistics services for the international shipping of cell phones and accessories. CONCEL alleged that JASE had fraudulently overbilled……
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Case of the Day: Lantheus Medical Imaging v. Atomic Energy of Canada
We return today to Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. v. Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., a case involving a US letter rogatory in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Here is my brief summary of the underlying facts from my first post on the case: In the underlying case, Lantheus Med. Imaging, Inc. v. Zurich Am.……
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Case of the Day: Patton Boggs v. Chevron
In today’s case of the day, Patton Boggs LLP v. Chevron Corp. (D.C. Cir. 2012), the D.C. Circuit finally drove a stake through the heart of one of the satellite cases in the Lago Agrio litigation. Patton Boggs had sued Chevron and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher for a declaration that it was not conflicted out……
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Case of the Day: Starski v. Kirzhnev
Today’s case of the day, Starski v. Kirzhnev (1st Cir. 2012), is the appellate decision on one of my favorite cases of the day—I wrote about the District Court decision in my post of March 21, 2011. Here was my description of the facts: Vietnam owed a debt to Russia. Starski had connections in the……