Author: Ted Folkman

  • Judge Young Rules Against BC In The Project Belfast Case

    We have been closely following the Boston College Project Belfast case. If you haven’t been following, this is the case in which the government, at the request of the UK authorities, issued a subpoena to Boston College’s Project Belfast for oral histories that BC researchers took from participants in the Northern Ireland conflict. The researchers……

  • Welcome China Law Blog Readers!

    If you’ve followed a link from Dan Harris’s indispensable China Law Blog, welcome! I hope you’ll stick around here at Letters Blogatory. While Dan’s focus is obviously geographic, mine is topical—I cover international judicial assistance in US civil litigation, which includes nuts-and-bolts topics such as obtaining evidence abroad, enforcing foreign judgments, service of process, and……

  • Letters Blogatory’s 2012 Legislative Agenda

    This is the third and last in my series of end-of-the year posts—the Letters Blogatory legislative wish list for 2012. I will unleash Letters Blogatory’s crack team of lobbyists to get the ball rolling, but if one of these suggestions strikes you as a good idea, why not send a note to your representative or……

  • Case of the Day: Coloplast v. Generic Medical Devices

    In today’s case of the day, Coloplast A/S v. Generic Medical Devices, Inc. (W.D. Wash. 2011), Coloplast, a Danish firm, sued Generic Medical for patent infringement. Generic Medical moved to compel Coloplast to produce documents in the possession of Poges, one of its French subsidiaries. The judge’s Aérospatiale analysis was a bit dodgy. Generic argued……

  • The Year In Review 2: New Parties To The Conventions

    This is the second in my “year in review” series of posts. For those of you who keep track of which states are parties to which conventions—a handy thing to do—here is a list of the new state parties to the various judicial assistance conventions we cover here at Letters Blogatory. Hague Service Convention Malta,……