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Case of the Day: Peiker Acustic, Inc. v. Kennedy
I don’t like the plaintiffs’ style in the Case of the Day, Peiker Acustic, Inc. v. Kennedy (D. Colo. 2011). Peiker, a German firm, sued Kennedy in the Circuit Court for Oakland County, Michigan, for defamation. Kennedy did not reside in Michigan, but Peiker had a place of business there. Kennedy removed the case to……
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Digest for April 13, 2011
Tracfone Wireless, Inc. v. Sunstrike International, Ltd. (S.D. Fla. 2011). Granting a motion to serve a Hong Kong company via letter of request to the central authority and via mail.
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Case of the Day: Lake Road Trust Ltd. v. ABB Powertech
The case of the day, Lake Road Trust, Ltd. v. ABB Powertech (Pty) Ltd. (Conn. Super. Ct. 2011), involves a challenge to service of process under the Hague Service Convention in Sweden. Lake Road owned and operated a power plant in Connecticut. Naphthenics, a Swedish firm, supplied insulating oil for the transformers used in the……
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Case of the Day: NewMarket Corp. v. Innospec Inc.
The case of the day, NewMarket Corp. v. Innospec Inc. (E.D. Va. 2011), is an example of the use of ordinary discovery techniques to avoid the need to seek discovery from a foreign source under the Hague Evidence Convention. Both parties were in the business of selling gasoline additives. NewMarket claimed that Innospec had given……
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Our New Look!
Many thanks to my friend Sylvia Haber, a graphic designer in Boston, for her design of the new Letters Blogatory banner! Yet another step on Letters Blogatory’s path to global domination of the international judicial assistance blogosphere. Also, effective immediately, WordPress.com will no longer place pesky ads at Letters Blogatory. I hope this improves your……