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The History of Judicial Assistance
A while back I wrote about the United Company Rusal v. Trafigura case, the only case I know of with a really serious discussion of why the district courts have subject-matter jurisdiction over applications for judicial assistance. I threatened promised to come back to the jurisdictional question as time permitted. As a first step, I……
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Motions to “Validate” Questionable Service Of Process
In a couple of recent cases of the day (Tuckerbrook v. Banerjee and Davoyan v. Turkey), plaintiffs who had reason to question whether their efforts to effect service of process had been successful asked the court, after the fact but before the defendant had answered, to approve the service. In Tuckerbrook, the plaintiff asked the court to……
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From the Lago Agrio Desk
There are two developments today in the Lago Agrio saga. You can find all Letters Blogatory coverage of the Lago Agrio case here. First, Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ motion to recuse himself. The motion seemed fairly weak, given that to the extent the judge had formed a negative opinion of Donziger……
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Greatest Hits: January to April 2011
It’s been nearly four months since the launch of Letters Blogatory, and I decided to take a look at the aggregate statistics for the blog—which Cases of the Day have attracted the most attention? It turns out there are four cases that have gotten the most attention, by which I mean that their page views……