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Paper of the Day: Bill Dodge on Substituted Service and The Hague Convention
Friend of Letters Blogatory William S. Dodge, of the UC Davis School of Law, has published a draft of a paper on substituted service that is forthcoming in the William & Mary Law Review. Bills’ excellent article reviews the variety in state law on the use of affiliated companies as involuntary agents for service and……
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Minyao Wang on Service By Email
I welcome readers back to Letters Blogatory with this guest post by friend of Letters Blogatory Minyao Wang. Minyao takes a look at the Grupo Cementos case, which the Supreme Court has decided not to review. His take on Rule 4(f)(3) is not in accord with mine, and I will address the disagreement in the……
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Letters Blogatory’s New Home!
Readers, the day has finally arrived. I have finished the migration of Letters Blogatory, the web’s oldest blog (as far as I know!) devoted to international judicial assistance, to its new home in the Folkman LLC website. Here is the tl;dr: The new homepage URL for the blog is https://lettersblogatory.com/lettersblogatory. Please start using it to……
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At the Donziger Trial
Ispent the day yesterday in an overflow room watching the criminal contempt trial of Steven Donziger. The day lacked the drama of Day 1 of the trial. No one was chanting in the street. I did not see Roger Waters or Susan Sarandon. There were no dramatic opening statements. Still, it was interesting to see……
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Lago Agrio: Last-Minute Developments Before the Contempt Trial
Steven Donziger’s contempt trial begins in New York on Monday. In the days leading up to the trial, there have been two new developments. First, the New York Court of Appeals has denied Donziger leave to appeal from the lower court’s judgment disbarring him. This is perhaps the end of the line for his career as a……