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Case of the Day: Costa v. Kerzner International Resorts
Update: Due to a problem with my HTML, I published a garbled version of this article this morning. Here’s the corrected version! The case of the day is Costa v. Kerzner International Resorts, Inc. (S.D. Fla. 2011). Jennifer Costa, who had been a guest at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, sued the resort’s on……
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Case of the Day: Johns v. Van Brunt Motors
The case of the day is Johns v. Van Brunt Motors (N.Y. App. Div. 2011). Johns sued Faurecia S.A., a French corporation with offices in Nanterre, in the New York Supreme Court in Chemung County. Johns filed the summons and complaint with the court, but it served the defendant only with the summons and a……
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Case of the Day: Verve Communications v. Software International
The case of the day is Verve Communications Pvt. Ltd. v. Software International, Inc. (D.N.J. 2011). Verve was an Indian company that had a contract to perform services for Software International. The agreement had an arbitration clause calling for arbitration “on the papers, with no live witnesses or appearances by any party”, under the AAA……
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Case of the Day: Goel v. Ramachandran
The case of the day is Goel v. Ramachandran (S.D.N.Y. 2011). Vikas Goel, a resident of Dubai, was the founder of eSys Technologies Pte Ltd., a computer equipment distributor organized under the laws of Sinagpore and doing business there. All of the shares of eSys were owned by Rainforest Trading Ltd., a British Virgin Islands……