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Case of the Day: Tamimi Global Co. v. Kellogg Brown & Root
Today we revisit the case of the day from April 5, 2011, Tamimi Global Co. v. Kellogg Brown & Root. KBR had a US government contract in Iraq. The case arose when a subcontractor, Tamimi, sought to confirm an arbitral award against KBR for non-payment; KBR’s defense was that the government had not paid what it owed,……
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Case of the Day: Chevron Corp. v. Shefftz
We return to the Lago Agrio case with today’s case of the day, Chevron Corp. v. Shefftz (D. Mass. 2010). In this installment, Chevron sought leave to depose and take other discovery from one of the authors of the expert reports the plaintiffs submitted in the Lago Agrio case, Jonathan S. Shefftz. Chevron was seeking……
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Motions to “Validate” Questionable Service Of Process
In a couple of recent cases of the day (Tuckerbrook v. Banerjee and Davoyan v. Turkey), plaintiffs who had reason to question whether their efforts to effect service of process had been successful asked the court, after the fact but before the defendant had answered, to approve the service. In Tuckerbrook, the plaintiff asked the court to……
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Case of the Day: Tuckerbrook Alternative Investments v. Banerjee
The case of the day, Tuckerbrook Alternative Investments, LP v. Banerjee (D. Mass. 2010), involves an attempt to serve process in India. Tuckerbrook was a registered investment adviser. Banerjee, a resident of India but (according to Tuckerbrook) a US citizen, was a portfolio manager for Tuckerbrook. The parties had a dispute in 2008, which they……
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CTB v. Twitter again
For those of you who read Letters Blogatory via a feedreader or who subscribe via email: please note that I have subtantially changed the CTB v. Twitter post from this morning after realizing that my SCA analysis missed the mark. (This is one of the hazards of covering current developments on a daily basis!)