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The 2020 Supreme Court Term for Letters Blogatory Readers
The 2020 term of the Supreme Court, which will begin in October, promises to be interesting for Letters Blogatory readers. Here are the cases I’m watching:
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Kuwait Airways: New German Appellate Decision Allows Discrimination Against Israelis
Friend of Letters Blogatory Peter Bert has pointed me to a new decision from the Oberlandesgericht München in the Kuwait Airways affair. The airline, Kuwait’s flag carrier, refuses to carry Israeli passengers because of Kuwait’s discriminatory anti-Israeli boycott law. As I noted several years ago, the airline dropped its New York to London route rather……
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Consumer Arbitration: A Cautionary Tale
Readers, you may know that in addition to serving as an arbitrator in commercial cases, I hear consumer cases under the American Arbitration Association’s consumer arbitration rules. My own experience, which I hope is shared by the parties that appear before me in consumer cases, is that done right, a consumer arbitration can provide a……
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Some Political Thoughts
It’s time for a political post, so if you are one of the Letters Blogatory readers who likes coverage of cases of the day but has sent me very polite and reasonable emails asking for less politics, avert your eyes. Read on for two political ideas that are on my mind.
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Don’t Forget The Restatement (Fourth)
In my post on Clay v. Hilton, I gave what I think is the usual or orthodox view: a judgment of state A that is recognized in state B has the preclusive effect that it would have in state A. It doesn’t have more preclusive effect in order to avoid mischief. It doesn’t have less……