Author: Ted Folkman

  • 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……

  • Problems Seeing the Website?

    UPDATE: While I try to figure out what’s going on with the Letters Blogatory design, I’ve changed over to a default design that should work on every browser. Let me know if you have trouble! I have made some changes recently to improve the readability of Letters Blogatory on mobile devices, but after receiving some……

  • 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.……

  • 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,……

  • Case of the Day: Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank v. Saad Trading

    The case of the day is Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PSJC v. Saad Trading, Contract and Financial Services Co. (N.Y. Sup. 2012). The bank had sued Saad, a Saudi Arabian firm, for breach of contract in the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court and won a judgment of more than $33 million. Although Saad……