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New Article on Blocking Statutes etc.
William R. Maguire of Hughes Hubbard & Reed has a new article, Current Issues in Federal Civil E-Discovery, Proportionality, International Discovery and Deposition Practice, and Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Obviously such a broad article cannot comprehensively cover all of the areas within its scope. But the article does provide a good……
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Case of the Day: Myrtle v. Graham
In today’s case of the day, Myrtle v. Graham (E.D. La. 2011), Myrtle and British-American Insurance Group sued Graham and Aon Corp. for libel in the St. Tammany Parish District Court in Louisiana. The claim was that Graham, on behalf of Aon, had sent letters to various third parties falsely stating that Aon would no……
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New article on the US Reception of Private International Law Conventions
HT to Conflict of Laws.net for a link to a new paper by Hannah L. Buxbaum on the reception of private international law conventions, including the Hague Service, Evidence, and Apostille Conventions and the New York Convention, in the United States. The paper is available on SSRN. The paper focuses on the ways in which……
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Case of the Day: SEC v. Tourre
Our Case of the Day is SEC v. Tourre (S.D.N.Y. 2011). Fabrice Tourre was a key player in the Goldman Sachs CDO story. The allegation was that Goldman Sachs sold collateralized debt obligations to its clients and then bet that the CDOs would fall in price. For those interested in the underlying allegations, here is the seminal 2009 article from……
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USLW on Hereaus Kulzer v. Biomet
U.S. Law Week reported yesterday on the Heraeus Kulzer v. Biomet case, which we covered on January 25. I’m quoted as saying that the judicial assistance statue was intended to encourage other countries to liberalize their own law regarding discovery, and that “that effort has largely failed.” Germany (where the case arose) is a case in……