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Case of the Day: IJK Palm v. Anholt Services USA
The case of the day is IJK Palm LLC v. Anholt Services USA, Inc. (2d Cir. 2022). IJK was an investor in Palm Investment Partners, which was a minority shareholder of United Oils Limited, SEZC. United Oils, a Cayman entity, ran palm oil plantations in Peru. It fell on hard times, and its board approved……
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Case of the Day: Topstone Communications v. Chenyi Xu
The case of the day is Topstone Communications, Inc. v. Chenyi Xu (S.D. Tex. 2022). I love this case. It shows that the tide is turning. As longtime readers know, ever since Gurung v. Malhotra, courts have approved service by email on defendants in cases within the scope of the HCCH Service Convention, even when……
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Case of the Day: Pivar v. Van Gogh Museum
The case of the day is Pivar v. Van Gogh Museum (S.D.N.Y. 2022). Full disclosure: I was counsel for The Van Gogh Museum Foundation (“the Museum”), the defendant in the case. The Museum houses (though it does not own) the world’s largest collection of the works of Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh. One service the……
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Case of the Day: Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation
The case of the day is Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation (S. Ct. 2022). Justice Kagan, who wrote the opinion for a unanimous court, is such a good writer that sometimes the cases she decides are harder than she makes them look. But I do think today’s case was an easy one. Paul Cassirer was……
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Case of the Day: US v. Vaello Madero
It was a busy day at the Supreme Court yesterday. You probably logged on expecting to read about the Cassirer case, and I’ll try to get a post up about it next week. But over time, I have covered some of the First Circuit’s Puerto Rico status cases, so I wanted to comment on US……