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Case of the Day: NOCO Co. v. Chang
The case of the day is NOCO Co. v. Chang (N.D. Ohio 2019). NOCO brought a claim against Liu Chang, who resided in China, alleging Chang sold knockoff products via Amazon. NOCO send a request for waiver of service of process to Chang’s address China but received no response, though someone signed for the letter.……
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ALI Annual Meeting
Readers, I will be in Washington for my first ALI annual meeting. For those abroad, the ALI is an independent body that publishes material meant to clarify and modernize the law. The Restatements of the Law, for example, are promulgated by the ALI.
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Lago Agrio: Dutch Supreme Court Affirms Decision In BIT Arbitration
The Hoge Raad (the Dutch Supreme Court) has affirmed a lower court’s decision refusing to annul the interim awards in favor of Chevron in its investment treaty arbitration against Ecuador arising out of the Lago Agrio case. I covered one of the interim awards in February 2012, if you can believe that, as well as……
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Case of the Day: Motorola v. Hytera
The case of the day is Motorola Solutions, Inc. v. Hytera Communications Corp. (N.D. Ill. 2019). Motorola sought a forensic examination of several Hytera computers in China. The court denied the motion for reasons mostly having to with the timeliness of the request, which we need not consider here. But in an extended dictum, the……
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Case of the Day: Sudan v. Harrison
The case of the day is Republic of Sudan v. Harrison (S. Ct. 2019). I’ve covered the case several times before; my post on the Second Circuit’s decision on Sudan’s petition for a rehearing was my most recent substantive look, and guest author Jared Hubbard reported more recently on the oral argument. The case arose……