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Update on the Belfast Project Case: The Proposed Intervenors’ New Brief
We return today to the Belfast Project saga. If you haven’t been following this, the case involves a request by the government of the UK for judicial assistance under the US/UK mutual legal assistance treaty for issuance of a subpoena to obtain oral histories that participants in the Northern Ireland conflict gave to researchers at……
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Case of the Day: Gurung v. Malhotra
The case of the day, Gurung v. Malhotra (S.D.N.Y. 2011), involves unsavory allegations of mistreatment of a domestic laborer by a foreign official. Shanti Gurung sued Neena Malhotra, the Counselor of Press, Culture, Information and Community Affairs at India’s consulate general in New York, and her husband, Joseph Malhotra. The claim was that the Malhotras……
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Case of the Day: RECARO North America v. Holmbergs Childsafety Co.
The case of the day is RECARO North America, Inc. v. Holmbergs Childsafety Co. (E.D. Mich. 2011). RECARO, a child safety seat manufacturer, claimed that the defendants, Holmbergs Childsafety Co., a Hong Kong company, and its affiliates, Gnosjö-Gruppen AB and Holmbergs Childsafety AB, both Swedish companies, designed and manufactured the “A-locks” that it used in……
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Case of the Day: Ambritz Trading Corp. v. URALSIB Financial Corp.
The case of the day is Ambritz Trading Corp. v. URALSIB Financial Corp. (S.D.N.Y. 2011). Figuring out the players takes a bit of work. The main plaintiff was Ambritz, a Seychelles corporation with its principal place of business in Russia. The defendants were OJSC Financial Corporation URALSIB, a Russian holding company, and several of its……
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Case of the Day: In re Heckmann Corp. Securities Litigation
The case of the day is In re Heckmann Corp. Securities Litigation (D. Del. 2011). The case was a purported class action on behalf of the common stockholders of Heckmann. The plaintiffs alleged that Xu Hong Bin, the former CEO and President of China Water & Drinks, Inc., had misrepresented the strength of China Water’s……