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Case of the Day: Netezza Corp. v. Intelligent Integration Systems
We will focus on international judicial assistance here at Letters Blogatory, but in federal countries such as the United States, issues of judicial assistance, comity, the extent of a court’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, and so forth can arise in purely domestic litigation, where some parties or witnesses are located in states other than the forum state. Our case……
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Case of the Day: Bluemedia, Inc. v. Sordid Ones BV
Our very first case, BluMedia, Inc. v. Sordid Ones BV, involves an attempt by a U.S. litigant to serve a Dutch defendant with a summons and complaint via email. According to the Complaint, BluMedia is “one of the largest marketers of adult entertainment and more specifically gay adult online entertainment.” BluMedia accused Sordid Ones, which……
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Anticlimax of the Day: Servotronics Case Settles
The Supreme Court will not decide the Servotronics case. Continue Reading Anticlimax of the Day: Servotronics Case Settles
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Space Opera of the Day: The Anne McClain Case
The New York Times reported last week that Summer Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer, suspected that her spouse—they were going through a divorce—was accessing her online bank account. She looked into it and discovered that the account had been accessed by someone using a computer whose IP address belonged to NASA. And since……
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“Intellectual Whiplash”: One Day, Two International Cases, and Two Different Results at the U.S. Supreme Court
I invited Chuck Kotuby to do a guest post on the Lozano case, as he is Letters Blogatory’s resident expert on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction, and lo and behold, he wrote up the BG Group v. Argentina case as well! Of course, the two cases, decided on the same……