Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Author: Ted Folkman

  • 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 However, they proved more time-consuming to keep up to date than I anticipated, and they are now seriously out of date.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……

  • Case of the Day: Suzlon Energy v. Microsoft

    Case of the Day: Suzlon Energy v. Microsoft

    Today’s case of the day, Suzlon Energy Ltd. v. Microsoft Corp. (9th Cir. 2011), is another case involving the Stored Communications Act. Suzlon brought a judicial assistance application seeking to serve a subpoena on Microsoft for the contents of emails from the Hotmail account of Sridhar, an Indian national, for use in a civil case……

  • More on Preliminary Relief Before Service Of Process

    In recent posts on 3M Co. v. Christian Investments LLC and H-D Michigan, LLC v. Hellenic Duty-Free Shops, S.A., I opined that given that courts have jurisdiction to enter temporary restraining orders binding foreign defendants before service of process, they should also have jurisdiction to enter preliminary injunctions before service of process, as long as……