Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Author: Ted Folkman

  • Case of the Day: Patel v. Pal USA

    The case of the day is Patel v. Pal USA, Inc. (D. Nev. 2024). Patel sued Pal USA and its parent, Paltronics Australasia, Pty Ltd., for trademark infringement. Patel served the summons and complaint on Pal USA by mailing them to its registered office. Pal USA’s president and registered agent for service of process, Cooper,……

  • The MTA and indoctrination in K-12 education in Massachusetts

    Teachers are workers, and they have a real and legitimate interest in their wages and in the conditions of their employment. Many teachers are represented by a union, and here in Massachusetts, many are represented by the Massachusetts Teachers Association. Teachers in our public schools are also civil servants entrusted with the basic education of……

  • New Feature: Search by Jurisdiction

    Readers, I am happy to announce a new Letters Blogatory feature that I hope you will find helpful. You can now search my archive of thousands of posts for posts on cases decided in a particular jurisdiction. I have spent a lot of time over the last couple of months coding the archive. This was……

  • I Want to Believe in International Law

    I want to believe in international law. But as I’ve said in many posts over the last year, I think there is something deeply wrong with what many scholars say public international law tells us about the war in Gaza. The way I’ve expressed this is to say that I am not an expert in……

  • My database is too big

    Readers, for nearly fifteen years, I have been giving you links to PDFs of the court decisions I write about. And I have been hosting those PDFs on my own server. The RECAP project was very new when I started, and I did not hear of it for several years. The upshot is that I……