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The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Guest Post by Charles Kotuby on the Chafin Case

I’m pleased to welcome a new guest-poster to Letters Blogatory. Charles T. Kotuby Jr. is a senior associate with Jones Day in Washington and the US editor of Conflict of Laws.net. He’s posting on the Supreme Court’s recent grant of a petition for a writ of certiorari in Chafin v. Chafin, an interesting case under……

August 16, 2012
Letters Blogatory is Back in Business!

Well, I still don’t know what caused the Letters Blogatory Crash of 2012, but the good news is that we seem to be back in business, with everything back to the way it was. Yesterdays’ comments are irretrievably lost, sad to say, but that’s about the extent of the damage. Thank you to everyone who……

August 15, 2012
Case of the Day: Yates v. Cheung

The case of the day is Yates v. Cheung (N.D. Cal. 2012). Craig Yates, who uses a wheelchair, alleged that several businesses apparently located in a single building were not accessible to him. He asserted claims under the Americans With Disability Act and California law against the businesses and their landlords, Yee Mei Cheung, Tat……

August 15, 2012
Hacked! (Or something)

Something very bad happened to the Letters Blogatory server tonight (Aug. 14). You can see the website doesn’t work right. It doesn’t look the way it should, and none of my internal links are working. I am burning the midnight oil trying to set things right. Fortunately I had a backup, so almost no text……

August 15, 2012
Case of the Day: Schneider v. Kingdom of Thailand

The case of the day is Schneider v. Kingdom of Thailand (2d Cir. 2012). Schneider was the German equivalent of the bankruptcy trustee of Walter Bau AG, a German firm whose predecessor in interest had made an investment in a Thai toll road between 1989 and 1997. Walter Bau initiated an arbitration under the German-Thai……

August 14, 2012

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