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Case of the Day: United States v. Barry Fischer Law Firm
The Case of the Day is United States v. Barry Fischer Law Firm, LLC (S.D.N.Y. 2012). Turist-Cambio Viagens Turismo LTDA was a Brazilian currency exchange company. Kesten Development corp., a British Virgin Islands corporation, was its subsidiary. In the 1990s, three of the companies’ principals, Antonio Pires de Almeida, Ruriko Inoue, and Roseli Ciolfi, were……
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Case of the Day: In re Ex Parte Application of Motorola Mobility, LLC
The case of the day is In re Ex Parte Application of Motorola Mobility, LLC (N.D. Cal. 2012), our first [section] 1782 case in quite some time. Motorola had sued Apple in Germany, alleging that the iPhone and iPad infringed Motorola patents relating to 2G and 3G wireless communication standards. Apple asserted, as a defense,……
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Case of the Day: Seijas v. Republic of Argentina
We stick with the Argentina debt debacle for today’s case of the day, Seijas v. Republic of Argentina (2d Cir. 2012), the Second Circuit’s second decision on the subject in a matter of days. In Seijas, the district court had granted summary judgment for Argentina on the creditors’ claim for a declaration that Banco de……
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Case of the Day: NML Capital v. Argentina
The case of the day is NML Capital v. Argentina (2d Cir. 2012). I did not cover the entertaining story of the arrest of the ARA Liberdad in Ghana for payment of Argentina’s sovereign debt, so to make up for it I am going to cover the Second Circuit’s most recent contribution to the saga.……
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Case of the Day: Dion v. Rieser
The case of the day is Dion v. Rieser (N.M. Ct. App. 2012). Richard Rieser died intestate in 2007. He was unmarried and had no children, and he owned property both in New Mexico and in Australia. He was survived by his partner, Margaret Anne Dion; the two had lived together at various times in……