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Case of the Day: King v. King
The case of the day is King v. King (Ft. Peck Ct. App. 2011). It’s something you don’t see every day: a recognition and enforcement decision in the courts of one Native American tribe concerning the judgments of the court of another tribe. The Fort Peck Tribal Court is the court of the Assiniboine and……
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Case of the Day: Box v. Dallas Mexican Consulate General
The case of the day is Box v. Dallas Mexican Consulate General (N.D. Tex. 2013). The case was on remand from the Fifth Circuit. I wrote about the earlier decision in September 2012. In short, Box was a real estate broker; the claim arose out of Box’s work attempting to find new premises for the……
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Case of the Day: Bell Helicopter v. Iran
The case of the day is Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. v. Islamic Republic of Iran (D.C. Cir. 2013). Bell operated a helicopter factory in Iran in the 1970s. It abandoned the plant after the Iranian Revolution. In 2002, Bell learned that the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Co., a state-owned firm, was using the plant to……
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Case of the Day: Thompson v. Doel
The case of the day is Thompson v. Doel (N.D. Cal. 2013). Denise Thompson, plaintiff in an Alberta defamation action, sought leave under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 to serve a subpoena on Google. The claim was that someone had used a Gmail email address to send Thompson’s employer defamatory statements about her. The proposed subpoena……
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Case of the Day: In re Application of Mare Shipping
The case of the day is In re Application of Mare Shipping, Inc. (S.D.N.Y. 2013). The case arises out of the sinking of the Bahamian-flagged oil tanker MT Prestige, owned by Mare Shipping, Inc., a Liberian corporation, off the coast of Spain in 2002. In 2003, Spain sued the American Bureau of Shipping and related……