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Case of the Day: Windecker v. Hang
The case of the day is Windecker v. Hang Wei (W.D. Tex. 2020). Windecker sued Hang Wei, a Chinese national, and served him with process by leaving the documents at a home owned by him and his wife in North Carolina. Hang argued that Windecker should have served process on him via the Hague Service……
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Case of the Day: Republic Technologies v. BBK Tobacco
The case of the day is Republic Technologies (NA), LLC v. BBK Tobacco & Foods, LLP (N.D. Ill. 2020). The case was “a trademark battle over the packaging and advertising for organic hemp cigarette rolling papers.” It’s pretty common in intellectual property cases to have parallel proceedings pending in the United States and elsewhere, and……
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Lago Agrio Update
I have not been writing about the remnants of the Lago Agrio case. Mostly that’s because the issues that got me interested in the case in the first place—the judgment recognition issues and the § 1782 issues—are over and done, but it’s also because I am sad about how things turned out for Steven Donziger……
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Case of the Day: Davis v. Zhou
The case of the day is Davis v. Zhou (9th Cir. 2019). I covered the case in November 2018. Zhou Liang, a Chinese national, was driving a rental car in Seattle when he collided with a city bus, injuring Michael Davis. He returned to China. Davis sued Zhou in the District Court three days before……
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Brownbag Lunch of the Day: Foreign Sovereign Immunity and Locally Employed Staff: the Massachusetts Example
Readers, if you are in Boston on January 27 at noon , come to the Boston Bar Association for a presentation I’m giving with Alan Pierce titled Foreign Sovereign Immunity and Locally Employed Staff: the Massachusetts Example. We’re going to talk about the Merlini case, the case in which a clerical worker at a foreign……