Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Author: Ted Folkman

  • Case of the Day: Bleier v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland

    The case of the day is Bleier v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland (N.D. Ill. 2011). The case is a putative class action. The plaintiffs claim that they are the holders of pre-WWII German bonds, on which Germany ceased making repayments in 1933. The substantive point in the case was whether the court had subject-matter jurisdiction in light……

  • Forthcoming Publication

    My colleague David Evans and I have written a chapter on Conflict of Laws and Choice of Law in International IP arbitration, which is to be published in Arbitration of International Intellectual Property Disputes (Thomas Halket, ed.), to be published by Juris in December 2011. I’ve included a link to the publisher’s site on the……

  • Case of the Day: In re Application of the Republic of Ecuador

    Today’s case of the day, In re Application of the Republic of Ecuador (N.D. Cal. 2011), is a request for judicial assistance by Ecuador seeking to obtain discovery from one of the experts whose reports Chevron offered in the Lago Agrio litigation and in the BIT arbitration. Our previous coverage of all things Lago Agrio……

  • Farewell to the Digests

    Today I bid a fond farewell to the Letters Blogatory digest pages. These pages were my first attempts to provide an index to my coverage of the case law. However, they proved more time-consuming to keep up to date than I anticipated, and they are now seriously out of date. I am not deleting the……

  • What’s Going On In The First Circuit?

    I follow developments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit more closely than I follow any other circuit, because it’s based here in Boston, so in the latest Letters Blogatory frolic and detour post, I ask: what’s going on in the judges’ chambers? This week saw the second of two significant recent……