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Case of the Day: Safavieh International v. Chengdu Junsen Fengrui Tech. Co.
The case of the day is Safavieh International, LLC v. Chengdu Junsen Fengrui Technology Co. (SDNY 2023). Safavieh was a New York rug design company. It alleged that Chengdu Junsen Fengrui, a Chinese rug company, was selling rugs on Amazon that infringed its design copyrights. Safavieh began by serving Amazon with a “takedown notice” under……
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“Tag Service” and Section 1782
Bill Dodge has a really interesting post about a decision from the bench in an SDNY Section 1782 case, In re Fourworld Event Opportunities Fund. Decision like this are from the darkest corner of the legal dark web. They are not published. They are not available on Lexis or Westlaw, even as unpublished decisions. They……
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Case of the Day: Monsanto v. Kilgore
The case of the day is Monsanto Co. v. Kilgore (Ark. 2023). Cornelius Kilgore sued Monsanto in Drew County, Arkansas, alleging that he suffered from cancer that had been caused by his long-term exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup-brand products. They sought to take a deposition, by notice, of Bauman, the CEO of Bayer AG, Monsanto’s parent……
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The Trump Indictment
I do not have much to say about the indictment of former President Donald Trump, except that in a healthier political climate, the indictment, or even the affidavit in support of the search warrant earlier in the investigation, would spell the end of Trump’s political career. The fundamental problem is that Republican officeholders who know……
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A Letter Of Request Embodies Comity
Anyone who has filed a motion for issuance of a letter of request knows that the Aérospatiale factors provide the framework for deciding whether the court should issue the letter. Right? But there is an important point that I think is indisputably true yet also rarely discussed. The question in Aérospatiale was whether a foreign……