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Case of the Day: Maalouf v. Iran
The case of the day is Maalouf v. Iran (D.C. Cir. 2019). The cases arose out of the 1983 and 1984 bombings of US diplomatic missions in Beirut by Hizbullah and the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania by Al Qaeda. The Iranian government has been linked to all of the……
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Case of the Day: American Express v. Rui
The case of the day is American Express Co. v. Rui (D. Ariz. 2019). Amex brought a claim against Xiongwen Rui, a former executive, seeking to claw back compensation Rui had received before quitting and going to work for a Chinese competitor. After several failed attempts at service, Amex brought a motion to serve process……
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Case of the Day: Lamps Plus v. Varela
The case of the day is Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela (S. Ct. 2019). A hacker tricked Lamps Plus into disclosing tax information of more than a thousand employees. One of the employees, Frank Varela, was the victim of identity theft when someone using his information filed a fraudulent tax return in his name. Varela……
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Case of the Day: Santos v. LATAM Airlines
The case of the day is Santos v. LATAM Airlines Group S.A. (SDNY 2019). Yolanda Delia Arias Santos, an Ecuadoran, was flying from New York to Guyaquil, Ecuador on LATAM, a Chilean airline. she claimed that on the flight, a flight attendant spilled boiling tea on her. She sued in New York. LATAM moved to……
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Case of the Day: Pablo Star v. Welsh Government
The case of the day is Pablo Star, Ltd. v. Welsh Government (S.D.N.Y. 2019). The case involves Wales’s great twentieth-century poet, Dylan Thomas. I almost want to make this post about Thomas’s poems, because I think he is so terrific. Start reading this out loud: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower……