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Case of the Day: Sylla v. Kataname, Inc.
The case of the day is Sylla v. Kataname, Inc. (Cal. Ct. App. 2012). John Sylla asserted claims for breach of contract and for a variety of business torts against several defendants, one of which was IT-Farm Corp., a Japanese company. Sylla commenced the action in September 2005 and amended his complaint in December 2007……
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Tracfone Case Rightly Decided
I have commented critically on several decisions in the Southern District of Florida in cases brought by Tracfone against various foreign defendants. In one, the judge allowed a motion for leave to serve a subpoena on a non-party in witness in Canada. In another, the decision was not so clearly wrong but was strange and……
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Reply to Doug Cassel
Many thanks to Doug Cassel for his comments on some of the views I’ve expressed in the symposium. I’d like to respond to his three points in order. Case-Specific Exceptions I have argued that it doesn’t make much sense to have case-specific exceptions to the ordinary rules of recognition and enforcement of the foreign judgment.……
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Cert. Watch: Naranjo
I’m sorry I let this one slip through the cracks: Chevron, which had sought and received an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari in the Naranjo case, filed its petition on May 25. The petition focuses on the point I made in my 1/26/12 post: as a general matter,……