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Minding The Gap
Cassandra Burke Robertson is Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. The Lago Agrio case may be the most salient case to illustrate the doctrinal gap between the doctrines of forum non conveniens and judgment enforcement, but it is part of a growing trend of “American lawyers outsmarting themselves” by seeking dismissal……
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Symposium: Forum Non Conveniens And Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
I am very pleased to welcome readers to the first ever Letters Blogatory symposium! I got the idea from the folks at Opinio Juris, who do such things regularly and well. The topic of our mini-symposium is the relationship between the doctrine of forum non conveniens and the defenses that a judgment debtor can offer……
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Symposium!
Please visit Letters Blogatory tomorrow for what I hope will be an interesting symposium on the intersection between forum non conveniens and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. This is obviously a hot-button issue in light of the Chevron/Ecuador case, and several of the participants will touch on that case in the course of their……
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Case of the Day: Schiff v. Hurwitz
The case of the day is Schiff v. Hurwitz (W.D. Pa. 2012). Schiff was a patient of Dr. Hurwitz, who performed the “BodyTite Procedure” on Schiff. Personally, I would not recommend any medical procedure with a purposely misspelled word in the name, but that’s just me. Schiff used a medical device manufactured by Invasix in……
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Case of the Day: Signalquest v. Tien-Ming Chou
I like how the judge in today’s case of the day, Signalquest, Inc. v. Tien-Ming Chou (D.N.H. 2012), began: “When service of process absolutely, positively has to be effected on a Taiwanese defendant pursuant to FRCP 4(f)(2)(C)(ii), is Federal Express enough?” The claim was for patent infringement. Signalquest asserted that Chou and his company, Oncque,……