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Case of the Day: In re Pott
The case of the day is In re Application of Pott (S.D. Fla. 2013). It’s a § 1782 application related to the application we considered back in May. In the earlier case, the court granted Alfredo Carlos Pott’s application for judicial assistance. No such luck this time. I’m not going to re-hash the prior post.……
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Case of the Day: Application of Setraco Nigeria Ltd.
The case of the day is In re Application of Setraco Nigeria Ltd. (M.D. Fla. 2013). Setraco Nigeria Ltd., an engineering company in Ahuja, Nigeria, alleged that in 2012 it discovered that two of its employees, Michel Nehme and Bechara Karam, had incorporated entities using the Setraco name in the United States and Canada without……
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Case of the Day: In re Dubey
The case of the day is In re Dubey (C.D. Cal. 2013). The case raises a question we have considered many times before, and which is also the subject of S.I. Strong’s excellent paper: is a private arbitration a “proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal,” for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 1782? Microelectronics Technology,……
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Case of the Day: In re Kivisto
The case of the day is In re Kivisto (11th Cir. 2013). Jussi Kivisto, a Florida lawyer, was disbarred in 2010 for various misconduct. He sued the lawyer who had filed a disciplinary complaint against him, Susan Robbins, and Michael Soifer, the Florida bar counsel, for violations of his civil rights and of the RICO……
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Case of the Day: In re Application of HydroDrive Nigeria
The case of the day is In re Application of HydroDrive Nigeria, Ltd. (S.D. Tex. 2013). HydroDrive applied for issuance of a subpoena to Cal Dive International, a Texas firm, for use in two Nigerian proceedings: a defamation claim HydroDrive had brought against Saipem S.A. and Saipem Contracting Nigeria, Ltd., in the High Court in……