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Kickstarter Project of the Day: Please Lend A Hand!
My friend Luke Farrer is coming to the end of a Kickstarter campaign for creating a 3D map of Australia’s Claustral Canyon that I hope you’ll take a minute to support. Here’s his description: Carrying the latest in 3D laser scanners, I will abseil down Claustral’s three sheer waterfalls to the base of the slot……
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Case of the Day: Box v. Dallas Mexican Consulate General
The case of the day is Box v. Dallas Mexican Consulate General (N.D. Tex. 2013). The case was on remand from the Fifth Circuit. I wrote about the earlier decision in September 2012. In short, Box was a real estate broker; the claim arose out of Box’s work attempting to find new premises for the……
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FOIA Update
I’m sorry, everyone, I haven’t had time to cover Judge Zambrano’s recent testimony yet. However, I did want to update you on two additional FOIA documents I’ve received. The first is the State Department’s response to Bill Irwin’s email following the meeting I’ve written about before. I think people on the LAPs’ side, fairly or……
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Case of the Day: Bell Helicopter v. Iran
The case of the day is Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. v. Islamic Republic of Iran (D.C. Cir. 2013). Bell operated a helicopter factory in Iran in the 1970s. It abandoned the plant after the Iranian Revolution. In 2002, Bell learned that the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Co., a state-owned firm, was using the plant to……
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Case of the Day: Thompson v. Doel
The case of the day is Thompson v. Doel (N.D. Cal. 2013). Denise Thompson, plaintiff in an Alberta defamation action, sought leave under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 to serve a subpoena on Google. The claim was that someone had used a Gmail email address to send Thompson’s employer defamatory statements about her. The proposed subpoena……