Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Author: Ted Folkman

  • Case of the Day: Verve Communications v. Software International

    The case of the day is Verve Communications Pvt. Ltd. v. Software International, Inc. (D.N.J. 2011). Verve was an Indian company that had a contract to perform services for Software International. The agreement had an arbitration clause calling for arbitration “on the papers, with no live witnesses or appearances by any party”, under the AAA……

  • Letters Blogatory Status Update

    You may have had some trouble reading Letters Blogatory this morning. My web hosting provider sent an email informing me that another site hosted on the same server as Letters Blogatory was the target of the dreaded distributed denial of service attack, which cause Letters Blogatory (and a bunch of other sites, too) to crash.……

  • Case of the Day: Goel v. Ramachandran

    The case of the day is Goel v. Ramachandran (S.D.N.Y. 2011). Vikas Goel, a resident of Dubai, was the founder of eSys Technologies Pte Ltd., a computer equipment distributor organized under the laws of Sinagpore and doing business there. All of the shares of eSys were owned by Rainforest Trading Ltd., a British Virgin Islands……

  • NML Capital Goes To Europe

    NML Capital, one of Argentina’s creditors, has been trying to collect on a US judgment for years. As we saw in NML Capital v. Banco Central (2d Cir. 2011), the case of the day from July 8, 2011, the Second Circuit held that the assets of the Argentine Central Bank on deposit with the Federal……

  • Case of the Day: Simmons v. Sabine River Authority

    The case of the day is Simmons v. Sabine River Authority of Louisiana (W.D. La. 2011). Simmons sued Louisiana government agencies and Entergy Corp. and affiliates on behalf of a purported class of landowners near the Sabine River. The claim was that the defendants caused a catastrophic flood by opening the floodgates of the Toledo……