Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Author: Ted Folkman

  • Case of the Day Chevron Corp. v. Salazar

    The battle before Judge Kaplan continues in the Lago Agrio case. All our prior coverage is here. Today’s case of the day, Chevron Corp. v. Salazar (S.D.N.Y. 2011), relates to Chevron’s efforts to take the depositions of three of the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ Ecuadorian lawyers, Pablo Fajardo Mendoza, Juan Pablo Saenz, and Julio Prieto Mendez,……

  • Foiled! Letters Blogatory Turned Away At The Statehouse

    There was a hearing today before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary of the Massachusetts legislature regarding the Uniform Foreign Court Money Judgment Act, which Massachusetts may adopt. The bill was introduced at the start of the current legislative session. I couldn’t attend the hearing, so I called the Committee’s offices to ask whether I……

  • Briefs of the Day: Law Professor Amici Weigh In on the Chevron Injunction

    H/T to International Law Grrls and Opinio Juris for their posts on dueling amicus briefs in Chevron Corp. v. Naranjo, the case now on appeal in the Second Circuit,  in which Chevron sought and obtained a preliminary injunction barring the Lago Agrio plaintiffs from seeking recognition and enforcement of the multi-billion dollar Ecuadorian judgment against……

  • Case of the Day: Dyer v. Can-Truck, Inc.

    In the case of the day, Dyer v. Can-Truck, Inc. (N.D. Ohio 2011), Frank Dyer alleged that while he was riding a motorcycle near Lima, Ohio, he was injured when struck by a truck driven by Jaswinder Sekhon and owned by Can-Truck, Inc. Sekhon resided in Ontario, and Can-Truck had its place of business there.……

  • Case of the Day: New Jersey v. Merrill Lynch & Co.

    It’s been a fairly slow week in judicial assistance, so I’ve reached a little outside the Letters Blogatory scope of coverage for today’s case of the day, New Jersey v. Merrill Lynch & Co. (3d Cir. 2011). The case illustrates a trap for the unwary in drafting forum selection clauses. In an earlier post, I……