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Case of the Day: Haan Corp. v. Sparkling Drink Systems
The case of the day is Haan Corp. Korea v. Sparkling Drink Systems Innovation Center Hong Kong (N.D. Ill. 2017). Haan brought a claim against Aaron Serge Bueno, alleging a RICO conspiracy and fraud. The claim was that Bueno and the other defendants had “operated a successful pod-based beverage system (akin to the well-known Keurig…
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Case of the Day: Defense for Children International v. Biden
The case of the day is Defense for Children International—Palestine v. Biden (N.D. Cal. 2024). Something I’ve seen very often in courtrooms, and read in a lot of decisions, is a tendency for many judges, when they are about to rule against a party, to express a lot of sympathy for the equities on the…
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Case of the Day: SiOnyx v. Hamamatsu Photonics
The case of the day is SiOnyx LLC v. Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (D. Mass. 2016). SiOnyx and the President and Fellows of Harvard College brought an action against Hamamatsu Photonics, a Japanese corporation, and its American subsidiary, Hamamatsu Corp., and others. The plaintiffs effected service on Hamamatsu Corp., but they conceded that they had not…
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Case of the Day: Goel v. Ramachandran
The case of the day is Goel v. Ramachandran (S.D.N.Y. 2011). Vikas Goel, a resident of Dubai, was the founder of eSys Technologies Pte Ltd., a computer equipment distributor organized under the laws of Sinagpore and doing business there. All of the shares of eSys were owned by Rainforest Trading Ltd., a British Virgin Islands…
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Case of the Day: Samsun Logix Corp. v. Bank of China
Our case of the day, Samsun Logix Corp. v. Bank of China (S.D.N.Y. 2010), involves the question of a district court’s removal jurisdiction over a state court action to garnish the bank account of the losing party in a foreign arbitration after the district court granted a motion to recognize and enforce the award. The…