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Case of the Day: United States ex rel. Bunk v. Gosselin Worldwide Moving
The case of the day is United States ex rel. Bunk v. Gosselin Worldwide Moving, N.V. (E.D. Va. 2016). Kurt Bunk and Ray Ammons sued Gosselin Worldwide Moving, N.V. under the False Claims Act, alleging that Gosselin had acted wrongfully (the opinion doesn’t say exactly how) in connection with its participation in two military shipping……
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Case of the Day: United States v. Trabelsi
The case of the day is United States v. Trabelsi (D.C. Cir. 2017). Days after the 9/11 attack, Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunesian national and former professional footballer, was arrested in Belgium. The policy searched his apartment and found an Uzi submachine gun and a list of chemicals used to make explosives. He was charged with……
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Case of the Day: Receivers of Sabena v. Deutsche Bank
The case of the day is Receivers of Sabena SA v. Deutsche Bank AG (N.Y. App. Div. 2016). Sabena, before it became insolvent, was Belgium’s national airline. It provided airplane maintenance services to Sudan Airways Ltd. In 1997, to pay for some services Sabena had provided for its planes, Sudan Airways initiated an electronic funds……
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Case of the Day: Presley v. N.V. Masureel Veredeling
The case of the day is Presley v. N.V. Masureel Veredeling (Tex. Ct. App. 2012). Marina Presley was the president of Sudaglass Fiber Co. She and Sudaglass entered into a joint venture agreement with Masureel, a Belgian company in the business of yarns and fabrics finishing. The aim of the joint venture was to sell……
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NML Capital Goes To Europe
NML Capital, one of Argentina’s creditors, has been trying to collect on a US judgment for years. As we saw in NML Capital v. Banco Central (2d Cir. 2011), the case of the day from July 8, 2011, the Second Circuit held that the assets of the Argentine Central Bank on deposit with the Federal……