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Case of the Day: Linsen International Ltd. v. Humpuss Sea Transport
The Case of the Day is Linsen International Ltd. v. Humpuss Sea Transport Pte Ltd. (S.D.N.Y. 2011). Linsen and the other plaintiffs were shipowners who chartered their ships to HST. HST failed to pay. The charter agreement had an arbitration clause calling for arbitration in London. During the arbitration, HST “attempted to reorganize its corporate……
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Case of the Day: Gramercy Insurance Co. v. Kavanagh
Memo to foreign defendants: If you want to avoid service of process by concealing your foreign address from the plaintiff, don’t hire a US lawyer to enter an appearance in the action. The case of the day, Gramercy Insurance Co. v. Kavanagh (N.D. Tex. 2011), is a case in point. Gramercy sued Kennedy and others……
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Case of the Day: Davoyan v. Republic of Turkey
The case of the day, Davoyan v. Republic of Turkey (C.D. Cal. 2011), is a putative class action by Armenians and their heirs who claim that they were “deprived of their citizenship, brutally deported, had their property seized and expropriated by the Turkish government” during the Ottoman period. The claims were for imposition of a……
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Judicial Assistance
The international law coverage of the charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn has focused, rightly, on the public international law question of whether Strauss-Kahn can assert a defense of immunity because he is the managing director of the IMF. Duncan Hollis at Opinio Juris has a post up about this. What about the judicial assistance aspects of the……
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Case of the Day: Mitchell v. Volkswagen Group of America
The case of the day, Mitchell v. Volkswagen Group of Am., Inc. (N.D. Ga. 2010), shows the importance of checking the text of reservations to the Hague Conventions in their original language rather than relying on the English translation on the Hague Conference website. The claim was for product liability that resulted in the death……