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Tracfone Case Rightly Decided
I have commented critically on several decisions in the Southern District of Florida in cases brought by Tracfone against various foreign defendants. In one, the judge allowed a motion for leave to serve a subpoena on a non-party in witness in Canada. In another, the decision was not so clearly wrong but was strange and……
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Guest Post: Comments on the Lago Agrio Plaintiffs Enforcement Action in Canada
I asked esteemed fellow blogger Antonin I. Pribetic to help me and Letters Blogatory readers get a grip on the Canadian law that will be at issue in the new Ontario case, and I’m delighted he’s agreed. Antonin is a trial and appellate lawyer practicing in Toronto with a focus on international litigation and arbitration.……
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Reply to Doug Cassel
Many thanks to Doug Cassel for his comments on some of the views I’ve expressed in the symposium. I’d like to respond to his three points in order. Case-Specific Exceptions I have argued that it doesn’t make much sense to have case-specific exceptions to the ordinary rules of recognition and enforcement of the foreign judgment.……
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Response to Ted Folkman
In his various comments on the symposium contributions, our host Ted Folkman makes three points to which I respond here. Case-Specific Exceptions Generally First, Ted questions whether case-specific grounds for non-enforcement of foreign judgments are needed, so long as the systemic inadequacy of a foreign judicial system is a ground for non-enforcement. If the foreign……