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Letters Blogatory Mourns The Victims Of The School Shooting In Pakistan
My colleague Javier Ochoa at Cartas Blogatorias suggested that our two blogs should not be silent about the atrocious murder of more than a hundred students at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan yesterday. I share his sentiment. Yesterday’s attack recalled the sadness we felt after the Newtown, Connecticut school massacre, but in a way it……
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Maya Steinitz on “The Case For An International Court of Civil Justice”
Maya Steinitz of the University of Iowa College of Law has recently published The Case For An International Court Of Civil Justice, 67 Stan. L. Rev. Online 75 (2014). The paper proposes creation of an international court to exercise jurisdiction over cross-border torts. I’d like to congratulate Professor Steinitz on her contribution to the debate……
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Case of the Day: In re Application for an Order Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782
The case of the day is In re Application for an Order Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782 (2d Cir. 2014). This is the appeal from In re Application of Berlamont, the case of the day from August 21, 2014.
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My State Deparment FOIA Case Comes To An End
Readers, my FOIA case against the State Department has reached its conclusion. The Department has finished producing what it has to produce and has provided a log showing what it has refused to produce and why. Once could challenge its refusals on various grounds, but I think that by and large I did what I……
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Hague Service and Evidence Conventions: The US Central Authority’s Unusual Interpretation
A reader wrote in with the following case. He (a Mexican lawyer) asked PFI, the contractor that carries out the day-to-day work of the Department of Justice in its capacity as central authority for the United States under the Hague Service Convention, to serve a summons on a Mexican national in the United States. The……