Category: Judicial Assistance Statute

  • Case of the Day: In re Gonzalez

    The Eleventh Circuit dismisses an appeal from a magistrate judge’s decision on a motion to compel on finality grounds. Continue Reading Case of the Day: In re Gonzalez

  • Case of the Day: In re Campuzano

    The case of the day is In re Campuzano-Treviño (D. Md. 2022). Manuel Campuzano-Treviño, a Mexican national, was the president and CEO of Universidad Tecnológica de México. The University was owned by Laureate Education, Inc., a Delaware company with its offices in Miami, but formerly with offices in Baltimore. Campuzano sued the University and Laureate……

  • Anticlimax of the Day: Servotronics Case Settles

    The Supreme Court will not decide the Servotronics case. Continue Reading Anticlimax of the Day: Servotronics Case Settles

  • Cert. Watch: Servotronics v. Rolls-Royce

    Readers, I am keeping my eye on the cert. petition in Servotronics, Inc. v. Rolls-Royce plc, a case I’ve written about before, which raises the question whether § 1782 reaches private international arbitrations, or more specifically, whether such arbitrations are proceedings in a foreign or International tribunal, as the statute requires. The petition was filed……

  • Case of the Day: In re Newbrook Shipping

    The case of the day is In re Newbrook Shipping Corp. (D. Md. 2020). Nardella Corp., a Nevis company, obtained an order from a South African court to arrest the M/V Falcon Traveller to provide security for a claim in an arbitration in Singapore regarding the arrest of another vessel, the M/V Falcon Carrier.. Newbrook……