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Case of the Day: Lake Road Trust Ltd. v. ABB Powertech
The case of the day, Lake Road Trust, Ltd. v. ABB Powertech (Pty) Ltd. (Conn. Super. Ct. 2011), involves a challenge to service of process under the Hague Service Convention in Sweden. Lake Road owned and operated a power plant in Connecticut. Naphthenics, a Swedish firm, supplied insulating oil for the transformers used in the……
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Case of the Day: NewMarket Corp. v. Innospec Inc.
The case of the day, NewMarket Corp. v. Innospec Inc. (E.D. Va. 2011), is an example of the use of ordinary discovery techniques to avoid the need to seek discovery from a foreign source under the Hague Evidence Convention. Both parties were in the business of selling gasoline additives. NewMarket claimed that Innospec had given……
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Our New Look!
Many thanks to my friend Sylvia Haber, a graphic designer in Boston, for her design of the new Letters Blogatory banner! Yet another step on Letters Blogatory’s path to global domination of the international judicial assistance blogosphere. Also, effective immediately, WordPress.com will no longer place pesky ads at Letters Blogatory. I hope this improves your……
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Case of the Day: SEC v. Kramer
Today’s case of the day, SEC v. Kramer (M.D. Fla. 2011), is definitely outside the official Letters Blogatory scope of coverage, but I wanted to write about it for two reasons. First, it is the second case in recent days to involve people in the business of using publicly traded shell companies with no operations……
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Recognition of foreign judgments in defamation cases: the SPEECH Act
Gilles Cuniberti has posted the abstract of Lili Levi’s new paper on The Problem of Trans-national Libel at Conflict of Laws.net, as has Antonin I. Pribetic at the Trial Warrior Blog. The paper discusses the SPEECH Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 4101-4105, which was enacted last year. Because the SPEECH Act provides a rule of non-recognition……