Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Author: Ted Folkman

  • 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……

  • Case of the Day: Tiffany (NJ) LLC v. Qi

    The case of the day is Tiffany (NJ) LLC v. Qi (S.D.N.Y. 2011). Tiffany & Co., the jewelers, brought a trademark infringement action against Qi Andrew, Gu Gong, Sliver Deng, and Kent Deng, who, they allege, were selling Tiffany knockoffs on the Internet. According to Tiffany, the defendants accepted payments in US dollars and used……

  • Can I Count On Your Vote?

    The ABA is soliciting nominations for its 2011 “Blawg 100,” a listing of 100 blogs written by lawyers for lawyers. If you look at last year’s awards, you’ll see that there’s not even a category for international law blogs (though some international law blogs are included, for instance, the China Law Blog, in the “niche”……