Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Belfast Project: Supreme Court Developments

For those of you who have wondered where things stand with the Belfast Project case, here is a quick update. On March 15, Ed Moloney & Anthony McIntyre filed a motion asking the Supreme Court to defer consideration of their petition for a writ of certiorari pending the outcome of Boston College’s appeal in the……

March 21, 2013
Updates for Regular Readers

Readers, I have a couple of updates for you on the “state of the blog”: As of today, you can read Letters Blogatory on your Kindle! If you’re like me and you read the paper in the morning on your Kindle, you might find this handy. Check it out! Those of you who read Letters……

March 20, 2013
Case of the Day: Rosales v. FitFlop USA, LLC

The case of the day is Rosales v. FitFlopUSA, LLC (S.D. Cal. 2013). Rosales, who had bought FitFlop footware, sued the company, alleging that FitFlop had represented “that its products will provide wearers with a variety of health benefits, but in reality FitFlop Footware does not provide the promised benefits and may actually cause or……

March 20, 2013
Lago Agrio: Judge Kaplan Orders Patton Boggs To Produce Documents

Judge Kaplan has issued a significant decision in the RICO case against Steven Donziger and the Lago Agrio plaintiffs. The decision orders the Ecuadorans’ US law firm, Patton Boggs, to produce documents in response to a subpoena, subject to privilege claims much narrower than the claims Patton Boggs argued it was entitled to make. The……

March 19, 2013
Letters Blogatory Sues the Government Under FOIA

Readers who are following the Lago Agrio case will know that until the Second Circuit decided Naranjo (and maybe even now), one of the main questions Chevron sought to litigate in New York was whether the Ecuadoran courts were systematically inadequate, that is, whether they met the standards of impartiality and due process necessary to……

March 18, 2013

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