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Case of the Day: PHH Mortgage Corp. v. Colliton
The case of the day is PHH Mortgage Corp. v. Colliton (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2012). The action was for foreclosure of a mortgage. PHH served the complaint on James Colliton, who accepted service for himself and his wife, Grace Colliton, but Mr. Colliton’s answer asserted that at the time of service, Mrs. Colliton no longer……
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Case of the Day: Brey Corp. v. LQ Management
The case of the day is Brey Corp. v. LQ Management, LLC (D. Md. 2012). Brey, a Maryland corporation, brought a putative class action against LQ, a Texas corporation, for violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The TCPA prohibits the use of fax machines to send unsolicited advertisements. Brey claimed that it had received……
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Chevron Seeks Confirmation of its Arbitral Award Against Ecuador
In May 2012, I noted that a Dutch court had refused to vacate a $96 million arbitral award Chevron had obtained against Ecuador on its 2006 claims that Ecuador violated the US/Ecuador BIT. Now Chevron has moved to confirm the award in the District of Columbia. Aside from the fact of the complaint, there is……
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Case of the Day: Brown v. China Integrated Energy
The case of the day is Brown v. China Integrated Energy, Inc. (C.D. Cal. 2012). The case was a class action for securities fraud against China Integrated Energy and Xincheng Gao, Gaihong Li, and Junrong Guo, among others. The three were officers or directors of China Integrated Energy. The plaintiffs did not know their addresses……
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Case of the Day: In re LLS America
Today’s case of the day, Kriegman v. Cooper (In re LLS America, LLC) (Bankr. E.D. Wash. 2012), is yet another case standing for the proposition that as a matter of US law, service by mail is permissible in Canada. Frank and Miller, both of British Columbia, were investors in what may or may not have……