Author: Ted Folkman

  • Reply to Chris Bray

    Thanks to Chris Bray for the thoughtful post on the Belfast Project case. I want to respond with some thoughts about the law of evidence and the law of civil disobedience that Chris’s comments have prompted. Why It Might Make Sense To Reject An “Oral Historian’s Privilege” I’ve said before that I think the question……

  • What’s Next In The Belfast Project Case?

    While we wait for the hearing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, it seems clear that the field of battle is going to shift from the courts here in Boston to Washington. McIntyre and Moloney have been lobbying on the issue, and they have garnered some support from Senator John Kerry.……

  • Case of the Day: Tracfone Wireless, Inc. v. Bitton

    In October 2011, we considered TracFone Wireless v. Doe (S.D. Fla. 2011), a decision I called “one of those rare cases that is so wrong that I hope it does not get into the F. Supp.2d, so as to avoid misleading lawyers.” The October decision authorized service of a subpoena by mail in Canada for……

  • Belfast Project Hearing Wrap-up

    Thanks to all of you who followed along with the liveblog or commented! I enjoyed covering the event for you. As predicted, this turned out to be an easy case—so easy that the government’s lawyer barely had to say two words. There was really no answer, on a doctrinal level, to the judge’s observation that……

  • Belfast Project Live Blog

    Welcome to the Letters Blogatory liveblog of the Belfast Project hearing! I expect to start blogging shortly before the hearing begins, at 2 p.m. EST (7 p.m. GMT). Please join in with your comments and questions, or you can tweet using the hashtag #blogatory. Below the liveblog window, you’ll find the key documents at issue……