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Case of the Day: In re Grand Jury Subpoena
The Case of the Day is In re Grand Jury Subpoena (4th Cir. 2011). Because the case involves a grand jury proceeding, the opinion does not disclose the identities of the relevant parties. It seems likely to me, based on a press release from the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, that “Company…
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Case of the Day: Diamond Offshore (Bermuda) Ltd. v. Haaksman
The case of the day, Diamond Offshore (Bermuda) Ltd. v. Haaksman (Tex. App. 2011), asks about the limits of the judgment debtor’s power to resist recognition of a foreign judgment on the grounds that the foreign court wrongly ignored the parties’ exclusive choice of forum clause. Diamond Offshore (Bermuda) operated an oil rig off the…
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Case of the Day: Netezza Corp. v. Intelligent Integration Systems
We will focus on international judicial assistance here at Letters Blogatory, but in federal countries such as the United States, issues of judicial assistance, comity, the extent of a court’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, and so forth can arise in purely domestic litigation, where some parties or witnesses are located in states other than the forum state. Our case…
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Case of the Day: Talisman Capital Alternative Investment Fund v. Mouttet
The case of the day is Talisman Capital Alternative Investment Fund, Ltd. v. Mouttet (In re Moutett) (Bankr. S.D. Fla. 2013). According to the complaint, in 2002, a group of investors, including Gerry Mouttet, sought to begin a lottery in Jamaica. They obtained a $30 million loan from Epsilon Global Master Fund LP and Epsilon…
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Case of the Day: Gucci America v. Li
Today’s case of the day, Gucci America, Inc. v. Li (S.D.N.Y. 2011), reprises the issues confronted in Tiffany (NJ) LLC v. Qi, 276 F.R.D. 143 (S.D.N.Y. 2011),the case of the day from August 17, 2011. Gucci and its affiliates sued Weixing Li, Lijun Xu, Ting Xu, and Kuelala.com, alleging that they were the owners and…