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Case of the Day: Shehadeh v. Alexander
The case of the day is Shehadeh v. Alexander (Ga. Ct. App. 2012). Abdel Karim Shehadeh, Mark Alexander, and others were parties to an operating agreement for Hydrajet Technology, LLC, a Georgia limited liability company. Shahadeh and Alexander entered into a separate agreement under which Shehadeh was to purchase Alexander’s interest in Hydrajet. Litigation over……
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Case of the Day: Sunflower Bank v. H.P. Construction Ltd.
The case of the day is Sunflower Bank, N.A. v. H.P. Construction Ltd. (D. Kan. 2012). The claim was for conversion of construction equipment. HP defaulted, and Sunflower moved for entry of default judgment. The judge wanted to satisfy himself on proper service of process. He wrote that the return of service showed that the……
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Case of the Day: Facebook v. Banana Ads
No, today’s case of the day does not involve the Winklevi. Instead, it involves one of the most annoying bad practices on the Internet: typosquatting. I fall victim to it almost every day when I point my browser at nytiems.com or hufingtonpost.com. Some kinds of typosquatting are worse than others. Some involve pointless ads that……
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Update on Patton Boggs v. Chevron
As expected, Judge Salas has ruled that Patton Boggs’s motion for an injunction enjoining Chevron’s attempt to obtain exoneration of its bond in Judge Kaplan’s court is moot in light of Judge Kaplan’s order exonerating the bond.
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Split Decisions in the Argentine Sovereign Debt Cases
There are two new decisions to report in the Argentine sovereign debt cases. In the first, NML Capital, Ltd. v. Republic of Argentina (2d Cir. 2012), the Second Circuit rejected Argentina’s attempt to dissolve an attachment of a government agency’s bank account on FSIA grounds. In the second, Aurelius Capital Partners v. Republic of Argentina……