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Case of the Day: Foster v. Bridgestone Americas, Inc.
The case of the day, Foster v. Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (S.D. Ala. 2011), is a service of process dispute involving a Japanese defendant. Foster sued Mazda Motor Corp. and others for wrongful death after her husband was killed in an auto accident. Her claim was that the accident was caused “by catastrophic failure and tread……
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Case of the Day: Swezey v. Merrill Lynch
Ferdinand Marcos, the former Philippine president, left behind a trail of human rights and financial litigation in the Philippine and United States courts. In 1972, Marcos organized Arelma, S.A., a Panamanian company, and Arelma deposited $2 million in a brokerage account with Merrill Lynch in New York. By 2000, the account had grown to $35……
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Article of the Day: Christina Weston on “The Enforcement Loophole”
The concern about what Professors Whytock and Robertson have called the transnational access to justice gap is front and center in a new student article in the Emory International Law Review by Christina Weston, called The Enforcement Loophole: Judgment-Recognition Defenses as a Loophole to Corporate Accountability for Conduct Abroad, 25 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 731……
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Case of the Day: Tiffany (NJ) LLC v. Qi
The case of the day is Tiffany (NJ) LLC v. Qi (S.D.N.Y. 2011). Tiffany & Co., the jewelers, brought a trademark infringement action against Qi Andrew, Gu Gong, Sliver Deng, and Kent Deng, who, they allege, were selling Tiffany knockoffs on the Internet. According to Tiffany, the defendants accepted payments in US dollars and used……