Author: Ted Folkman

  • Case of the Day: Fish & Richardson PC v. Camtek Ltd.

    We have frequently noted the that a foreign central authority’s certificate under Article 6 of the Hague Service Convention is prima facie evidence of service of process. In the discussion of Zions First Nat’l Bank v. Moto Diesel Mexicana, the case of the day from July 21, 2011, the Mexican defendant had been served with……

  • Case of the Day: Foster v. Bridgestone Americas, Inc.

    The case of the day, Foster v. Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (S.D. Ala. 2011), is a service of process dispute involving a Japanese defendant. Foster sued Mazda Motor Corp. and others for wrongful death after her husband was killed in an auto accident. Her claim was that the accident was caused “by catastrophic failure and tread……

  • Case of the Day: Swezey v. Merrill Lynch

    Ferdinand Marcos, the former Philippine president, left behind a trail of human rights and financial litigation in the Philippine and United States courts. In 1972, Marcos organized Arelma, S.A., a Panamanian company, and Arelma deposited $2 million in a brokerage account with Merrill Lynch in New York. By 2000, the account had grown to $35……

  • Article of the Day: Christina Weston on “The Enforcement Loophole”

    The concern about what Professors Whytock and Robertson have called the transnational access to justice gap is front and center in a new student article in the Emory International Law Review by Christina Weston, called The Enforcement Loophole: Judgment-Recognition Defenses as a Loophole to Corporate Accountability for Conduct Abroad, 25 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 731……

  • Letters Blogatory’s New Look

    I’ve given Letters Blogatory a new look! The main goals of the facelift were: To improve readability by increasing the size of the typeface and increasing the contrast between the background and the text. To provide a few new useful features, such as the “print” icon you will now find beneath a post after you……