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Oh, vendors
I had an interesting and unusual experience this week. I help a lot of lawyers take depositions without compulsion abroad. But it’s not that common for me to have to take a deposition abroad in a state that is a party to the Evidence Convention and where advance permission from the competent authority in that……
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Case of the day: Molecular Dynamics v. Spectrum Dynamics
The case of the day is Molecular Dynamics, Ltd. v. Spectrum Dynamics Medical Ltd.(2d Cir. 2025). Molecular Dynamics was a joint venture formed by SDBM Ltd. and Chancey Capital Corp. on the one hand and Biosensors International Group Ltd. on the other. The idea was to share intellectual property in order to develop “parallel but……
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The new Practical Handbooks are out
Practitioners, academics, officials, and others will be glad to know that the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law has just published the new editions of the Practical Handbooks on the operation of the Service Convention and the Evidence Convention. I promise you no one has paid me to say: I use……
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Elephant Habeas: NhRP files a new case in California
The Nonhuman Rights Project has filed a new habeas corpus case supposedly on behalf of two elephants, this time in California. The most important thing, I think, is that the new filing shows that these cases were not just a personal project of Steven Wise, the longtime head of the NhRP, who died last year.……
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Ezra Klein Is Not Helping
Ezra Klein had a column in yesterday’s Times about New York’s Jewish community and the apparent split in attitudes towards Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor. The column is classic Klein—classic Obama-era wonky center-left smart-sounding commentary. And it has the classic Obama-era wonky center-left smart-sounding blindness on Jewish issues today. There is a lot……