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Case of the Day: Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society v. Russian Federation
The case of the day is Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of Pa. v. Russian Federation (D.D.C. 2025). In 2017, the Russian government seized the headquarters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in St. Petersburg. The property is now used as a state-owned medical research facility. The Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, a Jehovah’s Witnesses……
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DOJ issues guidance on US lawyers as “forwarding authorities” under the Service Convention
It’s very common, and 100% correct, for US lawyers to transmit requests for service under the Hague Service Convention to foreign central authorities. But despite years of guidance from the HCCH on this topic, in the Practical Handbook and, if I recall, in the Conclusions & Recommendations of the Special Commission, central authorities often don’t……
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New guidance on procedure under the Uniform Arbitration Act
Both the FAA (9 U.S.C. § 6) and the Uniform Arbitration Act (RUAA § 5) say that an application to a court under the statute must be made by motion. In some courts, this creates a problem, because the clerk doesn’t know what to do with a motion that is not filed in a civil……
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More on Serving Foreign Defendants’ U.S. Counsel to Avoid the Hague Service Convention
Readers, I’m happy to bring you this post from the Transnational Litigation Blog by friend of Letters Blogatory Bill Dodge and new FoLB Mehrunnisa Chaudhry. The post covers a classic Letters Blogatory question that I’ve written about many times: can you serve process on a defendant who is in a Service Convention state by serving……
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Elephant habeas: California petition denied
The Los Angeles County Superior Court has summarily denied the Nonhuman Rights Project’s latest habeas petition supposedly filed on behalf of two elephants. The reason: elephants are property, not persons. “Certainly, Billy and Tina should be treated with adequate care for their physical and mental wellbeing; but habeas corpus is not the enforcement vehicle. As……
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