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Case of the Day: Lake Road Trust Ltd. v. ABB Powertech
The case of the day, Lake Road Trust, Ltd. v. ABB Powertech (Pty) Ltd. (Conn. Super. Ct. 2011), involves a challenge to service of process under the Hague Service Convention in Sweden. Lake Road owned and operated a power plant in Connecticut. Naphthenics, a Swedish firm, supplied insulating oil for the transformers used in the……
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Case of the Day: NewMarket Corp. v. Innospec Inc.
The case of the day, NewMarket Corp. v. Innospec Inc. (E.D. Va. 2011), is an example of the use of ordinary discovery techniques to avoid the need to seek discovery from a foreign source under the Hague Evidence Convention. Both parties were in the business of selling gasoline additives. NewMarket claimed that Innospec had given……
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Case of the Day: SEC v. Kramer
Today’s case of the day, SEC v. Kramer (M.D. Fla. 2011), is definitely outside the official Letters Blogatory scope of coverage, but I wanted to write about it for two reasons. First, it is the second case in recent days to involve people in the business of using publicly traded shell companies with no operations……
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Case of the Day: CFTC v. Aliaga
The case of the day, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Aliaga (S.D. Fla. 2011), involves alternative means of service where the defendant is in a country not party to a convention on service of process. The government alleged that Claudio Aliaga swindled retail investors in a Ponzi scheme supposedly involving investments in the foreign……
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Case of the Day: Harris v. NGK North American, Inc.
Revised, with a discussion of the implications of the Volkswagen case. The case of the day, Harris v. NGK North Am., Inc. (Pa. Super. Ct. 2011), is one of a series of cases that has taken a position, one way or the other, on whether Article 10(a) of the Hague Service Convention permits service by……