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Paper of the Day: Coyle on Judgments Reciprocity
In Monday’s post I mentioned John Coyle’s new paper, Rethinking Judgments Reciprocity, which is forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review, but it’s worth its own post. The main point of the paper is to provide a model for thinking about whether to include a reciprocity requirement in judgment recognition statutes. But what really stands……
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Lago Agrio: FOIA Update
The latest batch of FOIA documents from the State Department have arrived. Here are some highlights:
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Case of the Day: Elobied v. Baylock
The case of the day is Elobied v. Baylock (E.D. Pa. 2014). Hashim Elobied sued Trescott Baylock for breach of an oral contract for the purchase and sale of a Bentley Continental GT. Let me just pause to marvel at an oral contract for the purchase of a Bentley. I’m not sure which law applies……
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Thoughts on Greg Shill’s Judgment Arbitrage
Greg Shill, now a visiting assistant professor of law at the University of Denver and formerly on the Chevron team at Gibson Dunn, has written a very interesting paper, Ending Judgment Arbitrage: Jurisdictional Competition and the Enforcement of Foreign Money Judgments in the United States, 54 Harv. J. Int’l L. 459 (2013). The paper has……
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Case of the Day: Barot v. Embassy of Zambia
The case of the day is Barot v. Embassy of the Republic of Zambia (D.D.C. 2014). Doris Barot, a former employee of the Embassy of Zambia, sued, alleging violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and the DC Wage Payment and Collection Law. The Embassy moved to……