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Case of the Day: Hernández v. Mesa
The case of the day is Hernández v. Mesa (S. Ct. 2017). Hernández is one of the cases the Supreme Court decided on the last day of its just-concluded Term. Several of the decisions were highly interesting; none of them was a private international law case; but Hernandez is quite literally a cross-border case, so……
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Case of the Day: Basfar v. Wong
The case of the day is Basfar v. Wong, [2022] UKSC 20. The case is in a genre that is all too common and that I’ve written about before: a foreign diplomat or consul is accused of violating wage and hour laws or other employment laws by a domestic worker, and then he or she……
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Case of the Day: Ganpat v. Eastern Pacific Shipping
The case of the day is Ganpat v. Eastern Pacific Shipping Pte. Ltd. (E.D. La. 2022). I love this case. Kholkar Ganpat, an Indian national, was a seaman on the M/V Stargate, a ship operated by Eastern Pacific Singapore, a Singapore company. The vessel had traveled from Savannah, Georgia to Gabon, and then to Brazil.……
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Case of the Day: Hulley Enterprises v. Russian Federation
The case of the day is Hulley Enterprises, Ltd. v. Russian Federation (D.D.C. 2022). It involves the $50 billion arbitral award that shareholders in Yukos Oil Co. obtained against Russia in 2014 after alleging, in an arbitration in the Netherlands, that Russia had violated the Energy Charter Treaty by measures intended to “bankrupt Yukos, appropriate……
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Case of the Day: Osorio v. Dow Chemical Co.
The Case of the Day, Osorio v. Dow Chemical Co. (11th Cir. 2011), is reminiscent of the Lago Agrio case. Claim for massive environmental tort in Latin America? Check. A large group of workers and peasants as plaintiffs? Check. Claims of procedural improprieties and partiality in the Latin American courts? Check. American reluctance to recognize……