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Forthcoming Publication
My colleague David Evans and I have written a chapter on Conflict of Laws and Choice of Law in International IP arbitration, which is to be published in Arbitration of International Intellectual Property Disputes (Thomas Halket, ed.), to be published by Juris in December 2011. I’ve included a link to the publisher’s site on the……
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Case of the Day: In re Application of the Republic of Ecuador
Today’s case of the day, In re Application of the Republic of Ecuador (N.D. Cal. 2011), is a request for judicial assistance by Ecuador seeking to obtain discovery from one of the experts whose reports Chevron offered in the Lago Agrio litigation and in the BIT arbitration. Our previous coverage of all things Lago Agrio……
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What’s Going On In The First Circuit?
I follow developments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit more closely than I follow any other circuit, because it’s based here in Boston, so in the latest Letters Blogatory frolic and detour post, I ask: what’s going on in the judges’ chambers? This week saw the second of two significant recent……
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Case of the Day: Suzlon Energy v. Microsoft
Today’s case of the day, Suzlon Energy Ltd. v. Microsoft Corp. (9th Cir. 2011), is another case involving the Stored Communications Act. Suzlon brought a judicial assistance application seeking to serve a subpoena on Microsoft for the contents of emails from the Hotmail account of Sridhar, an Indian national, for use in a civil case……