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Case of the Day: Brandi-Dohrn v. IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG
The case of the day is Brandi-Dohrn v. IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG (2d Cir. 2012). Anselm Brandi-Dohrn was an investor in IKB, a German bank. He sued IKB in Germany for securities fraud in 2008. He alleged that the bank had failed to disclose that it had significant exposure to US collateralized debt obligations and……
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Breaking: Judge Zambrano “Dismissed”
The Washington Post is reporting that Judge Nicolás Zambrano, the Ecuadoran judge who issued the $18 billion dollar judgment against Chevron, has been “dismissed for improperly freeing an alleged drug trafficker.” Ecuador’s Board of Judges found Zambrano “either deceitful or grossly negligent” in his handling of a case in 2009, when he and another judge……
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Case to Watch: Linde v. Arab Bank
H/T to Alison Frankel for the pointer to the oral arguments in Linde v. Arab Bank plc, which was heard in the Second Circuit earlier this week. The case is timely in light of the recent ABA resolution on Aérospatiale and foreign data protection laws. The claim in the case is the the Arab Bank,……
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Case of the Day: New York State Thruway Authority v. Fenech
The case of the day is New York State Thruway Authority v. Fenech (N.Y. App. Div. 2012). The question was whether service by mail is permissible where the defendant is in Canada. There was no question in the case that New York law permitted service by mail; the question was whether the service also comported……
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Case of the Day: Negrepontis-Giannisis v. Greece
HT to Pietro Franzina for a pointer to the case of the day, Negrepontis-Giannisis v. Greece (ECHR 2011). Nikolaos Negrepontis-Giannisis was born in Athens in 1964. He had always been close with his uncle, who was born Mikhail Negrepontis, but who was renamed Timotheos when he was ordained in the Greek Orthodox church. At age……