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Case of the Day: Delizia Ltd. v. Eritrea
The case of the day, Delizia Ltd. v. Eritrea (S.D.N.Y. 2012), is a short, fun decision. Delizia had a contract to sell $12 million dollars of equipment to the Eritrean Ministry of Defense. The Ministry stopped making payments. The contract had an agreement to arbitrate, so Delizia commenced an arbitration in Sweden. Eritrea did not……
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Judge Kaplan Takes Chevron’s Motion
for a TROUnder Advisement[UPDATE: I’ve changed the title of the post to reflect uncertainty about what exactly the judge did. See Max Kennerly’s comment to the post]. I am told that at this morning’s hearing on Chevron’s motion for a temporary restraining order, Judge Kaplan took the matter under advisement and did not make a decision from the……
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Case of the Day: Glencore Ltd. v. Occidental Argentina Exploration & Production
The Case of the Day is Glencore Ltd. v. Occidental Argentina Exploration & Production, Inc. (S.D. Tex. 2012). Glencore had a contract with Sinopec, a Cayman Islands corporation doing business in Buenos Aires, for the delivery of crude oil to a vessel in Argentina for shipping to the United States. The claim was for demurrage.……
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Case of the Day: TruePosition v. LM Ericsson Telephone Co.
The case of the day is TruePosition, Inc. v. LM Ericsson Telephone Co. (E.D. Pa. 2012). TruePosition is in the business of “developing and marketing high accuracy location products that operate over cellular telecommunications networks.” TruePosition sued three firms, LM Ericsson Telephone Co., Qualcomm, Inc., and Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc., for violating the Sherman Act by……
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Case of the Day: Dierig v. Lees Leisure Industries
The case of the day, Dierig v. Lees Leisure Industries, Ltd. (E.D. Ky. 2012), is yet another example of a US case holding that service by mail in Canada is permissible. I have suggested, in a series of posts and comments here and at Antonin Pribetic’s Trial Warrior Blog, that I think service by mail……