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Case of the Day: Delex, Inc. v. Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co.
The case of the day is Delex Inc. v. Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. (Wash. Ct. App. 2016). Delex’s claim was that it had entered into a three-year lease of office and warehouse space in Seattle from a third party on behalf of Sukhoi, a Russian firm. According to Delex, Sukhoi never paid rent, and Delex……
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Paper of the Day: Oluwaseun Ajayi on Recognition of Foreign Country Money Judgments Connected to Criminal Proceedings
Readers, you may be interested in a new paper by practitioner Oluwaseun Ajayi on the recognition of foreign money judgments that are connected with criminal proceedings. It was published in the February 2016 edition of the Banking Law Journal. Unfortunately, the publisher, LexisNexis A.S. Pratt, refused the author’s request for reprint permission, so I cannot……
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Save The Date! “Toward a Global Framework for International Commercial Transactions: Implementing the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts”
Readers, the Hague Conference and the University of Lucerne are hosting a conference on the new Hague Principles on September 8 and 9, 2016 in Lucerne. Here at Letters Blogatory we have taken a pretty good look at the new Principles in light of the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws. The event looks terrific—it……
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Editorial: No on the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act
The proposed Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, S. 2040, has been in the news recently. The Saudi government has made economic threats to try to deter Congress from passing the bill. The bill was introduced in the Senate in September 2015 and was reported by the Committee on the Judiciary, in an amended form,……
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What’s Going On At HLS?
I have been following the news from Harvard Law School, my law school, with concern. What is going on at HLS? I want to note two items that were worrying to me and maybe to you. The first is the anti-Semitic remarks that, according to a published report, an “HLS student, who is the president……