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Case of the Day: Gucci America v. Li
Today’s case of the day, Gucci America, Inc. v. Li (S.D.N.Y. 2011), reprises the issues confronted in Tiffany (NJ) LLC v. Qi, 276 F.R.D. 143 (S.D.N.Y. 2011),the case of the day from August 17, 2011. Gucci and its affiliates sued Weixing Li, Lijun Xu, Ting Xu, and Kuelala.com, alleging that they were the owners and……
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Rafael Salomão Romano and Colleagues on Letters Rogatory in Brazil
I’m pleased to be able to post a short paper by Rafael Salomão Romano, a law student at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, and his colleagues, Caio Carrera and Prof. Daniela Trejos Vargas. Rafael wrote me some time ago with a question about the US judicial assistance statute. I gave him the……
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Case of the Day: A.O.A. v. Doe Run Resources Corp.
The case of the day, A.O.A. v. Doe Run Resources Corp. (E.D. Mo. 2011), is a little outside the official Letters Blogatory Scope of Coverage, but I cover it because it concerns two of our recurring themes: aggressive use of the FAA’s statute permitting removal of New York Convention cases, and Latin American toxic torts……
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Article of the Day: Jie Huang on Recognition of Judgments In Hong Kong
In today’s article of the day, Conflicts Between Civil Law and Common Law in Judgment Recognition and Enforcement: When is the Finality Dispute Final?, 29 Wis. Int’l L. J. 70 (2011), Professor Jie Huang, of the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade’s School of Law, examines the difficulties involved in recognition and enforcement of Mainland Chinese……
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Legislation of the Day: Ecuador To Refuse To Enforce Spanish Mortgages
Nicolás Zambrana Tévar has posted at Conflict of Laws.net on an unusual and maybe ridiculous bill before the Ecuadoran parliament on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. I’ve written before about the SPEECH Act, the new US statute that forbids recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in defamation cases unless the foreign proceedings gave……