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Case of the Day: Facebook v. Banana Ads
No, today’s case of the day does not involve the Winklevi. Instead, it involves one of the most annoying bad practices on the Internet: typosquatting. I fall victim to it almost every day when I point my browser at nytiems.com or hufingtonpost.com. Some kinds of typosquatting are worse than others. Some involve pointless ads that……
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Case of the Day: S&S Machinery Corp. v. Wuhan Heavy Duty Machine Tool Group
The case of the day is S&S Machinery Corp. v. Wuhan Heavy Duty Machine Tool Group Co. (E.D.N.Y. 2012). S&S was a machine tools merchant in New York. Under a 1999 agreement, it was the exclusive agent in North and South America for Wuhan, one of China’s largest machine tool manufacturers. The agreement gave S&S……
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Case of the Day: In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation
The case of the day is In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation (E.D.N.Y. 2012). The decision does not give details of the underlying dispute, though the title of the case (a multi-district litigation consolidated in the Eastern District of New York) pretty much says it all. The issue was whether the defendant, Société……
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Case of the Day: Thai-Lao Lignite v. Laos
The case of the day is Thai-Lao Lignite (Thailand) Co. v. Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (S.D.N.Y. 2012). We have reported on this dispute twice before. In the first post, the judge confirmed an arbitral award in favor of Thai-Lao against Laos. In the second, the judge granted judicial assistance to Thai-Lao, which……
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Case of the Day: Montebueno Marketing v. Del Monte Foods
The case of the day is Montebueno Marketing, Inc. v. Del Monte Foods Corp.—USA (N.D. Cal. 2012). Montebueno was Del Monte’s distributor in the Philippines. When Del Monte terminated the distribution contract in 1996, Montebueno sued, in the Philippines courts, for breach of the contract, even though the contract had an agreement to arbitrate. While……