Category: Hague Service Convention

  • Case of the Day: Davis v. Zhou

    The case of the day is Davis v. Zhou (9th Cir. 2019). I covered the case in November 2018. Zhou Liang, a Chinese national, was driving a rental car in Seattle when he collided with a city bus, injuring Michael Davis. He returned to China. Davis sued Zhou in the District Court three days before……

  • Case of the Day: Venice PI v. Galbatross Technologies

    The case of the day is Venice PI, LLC v. Galbatross Technologies, LLP (D. Hawaii 2019). The case was for copyright infringement. The relevant defendants were in India. The plaintiff sought a TRO that would have enjoined a domain name registrar not to transfer domain names that the plaintiff alleged were owned by the defendants……

  • Case of the Day: Habas Sinai Ve Tibbi Gazlar Istihsal v. International Technology & Knowledge

    The case of the day is Habas Sinai Ve Tibbi Gazlar Istihsal A.S. v. International Technology & Knowledge Co. (W.D. Pa. 2019). The claim was on a sales contract: Habas Sinai claimed that ITK and Intekno Teknoloji Transfer Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. failed to deliver goods as agreed, requiring Habas Sinai to buy replacements at……

  • Case of the Day: Brown v. Tamas

    The case of the day is Brown v. Tamas (Cal. Ct. App. 2019). Here is how the decision begins: The Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil and Commercial Matters sets the rules for service of judicial documents in foreign countries. When the Probate Code requires delivery of notice, as……

  • Case of the Day: G2A v. United States

    The case of the day is G2A.com Sp. z.o.o. v. United States (3d Cir. 2019). I previously wrote about the case in September 2018. The Polish authorities were conducting a tax investigation of G2a, a Polish video game company. The Polish government made a request under the US/Poland tax treaty for help obtaining evidence from……