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Case of the Day: Ministry of Defense of Iran v. Cubic Defense Systems
If you need convincing of the strength of the public policy in favor of arbitration, look no further than today’s case of the day, Ministry of Defense & Support for the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran v. Cubic Defense Systems, Inc. (9th Cir. 2011). In 1977, Cubic, a US corporation, entered into……
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Project Belfast: Judge Young Denies Motion To Quash
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……
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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……