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WordPress Does Some Business Litigation
I’m a big fan of WordPress, the publishing software that underlies Letters Blogatory. I started using WordPress in 2011 and have used it to bring you thousands of posts and for you to send back thousands of comments. It’s not quite free—I have to pay for a server I use to run the program and……
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Case of the Day: Skillz Platform v. Papaya Gaming
The case of the day is Skillz Platform, Inc. v. Papaya Gaming, Ltd. (SDNY 2024). I’ve written a lot recently about the use of the Evidence Convention to take discovery from non-parties, so I thought I’d write about a case involving discovery from a party, where it’s 100% correct to look at the Aérospatiale analysis.……
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What is the effect of an apostille on a forged document?
Béligh Elbalti has an interesting report at Conflict of Laws about a Moroccan case involving the Apostille Convention. After a Moroccan man’s death, his heirs, apparently acting under Moroccan law, issued a “certificate of inheritance” identifying his heirs. They omitted his wife, who was a Spanish national, on the grounds that she was not a……
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Un an de français à mon actif!
Je viens de finir ma première année d’apprentissage du français! I’ve been using Duo Lingo, which I will tell you is fun to use and helpful. Progress has been slow: I knew enough to know how to write that I’ve just done something, that finir ma première année is better than terminer mon première an,……
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Case of the Day: South32 Chile v. Sumtomo
The case of the day is South32 Chile Copper Holdings Pty Ltd v. Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2024). The case was for breach of contract; it had to do with “profits realized from operations at a Chilean gold mine.” South32 sought issuance of letters of request to three tax and financial advisory……