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Event Announcement: Judicial Assistance for the Taking of Evidence Outside Quebec
Readers, if you are going to be in Montreal on June 3, I’d like to give you a heads-up about an event I’ll be doing with the Canadian Bar Association/Association du Barreau Canadien: “Judicial Assistance for the Taking of Evidence Outside Quebec.” Here is the CBA’s summary: Evidence relevant to a case before a Quebec……
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Case of the Day: Footprint International v. Footprint Asia
The case of the day is Footprint International LLC v. Footprint Asia, Ltd. (D. Ariz. 2024). Footprint International was an Arizona company that made fiber-based bowls, plates, and cutlery. It had a contract with Footprint Asia, a Chinese company, to manufacture its products in China. Footprint International brought a trademark infringement claim against Footprint Asia……
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What to Make of Khymani James
Khymani James, a graduate of Boston Latin Academy and former student representative to the Boston School Committee, who not too long ago was feted as a rising student leader in Boston and who has said he wants to be elected to Congress someday, has been one of the leaders of the protest encampment outside the……
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Proof of Life
Amid all the bad news in the world, I was overjoyed to read that Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin is alive in Gaza. I don’t know Hersh or his family, but my daughter, like many Americans who have visited Israel in recent years, got to know him, and so my family has felt a closer connection……
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Case of the Day: BonSens v. Pfizer
The case of the days BonSens.org v. Pfizer, Inc. (2d Cir. 2024). BonSens is an organization of “concerned scientists, medical doctors, legal experts and citizens.” It brought an action in France seeking to nullify an indemnification clause in an advance purchase agreement Pfizer and BioNTech, manufacturers of COVID vaccines, had made with the European Commission……