Tag: Canada

  • Case of the Day: Baikowitz v. Jacobson

    Happy new year! The case of the day is Baikowitz v. Jacobson (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2023). Baikowitz, the curator of his father’s property, sued Jacobson in Montreal seeking to recover $750,000, which he said his father had invested in several of Jacobson’s projects, on the grounds that his father had been mentally impaired when he……

  • South West Terminal v. Achter Land & Cattle: The Case of the Thumbs Up Emoji

    The case of the day is South West Terminal Ltd. v. Achter Land & Cattle Ltd., 2023 SKKB 116, a Saskatchewan breach of contract case. It’s not a typical Letters Blogatory case, but it’s fun, and I expect to see it in contract casebooks in the future. Law students my remember it as the “thumbs……

  • Canada Accedes to the Apostille Convention

    Canada has acceded to the Apostille Convention. The Convention will come into effect for Canada in January 2024. This is actually pretty big news, given the volume of US/Canada cross-border business, the number of families with roots on both sides of the border, and the generally close and friendly ties between the two countries. The……

  • Case of the Day: Fleites v. Mindgeek

    The case of the day is Fleites v. Mindgeek SARL (C.D. Cal. 2022). The plaintiff, a victim of child sex abuse, accused the defendants of soliciting and monetizing her “child sexual abuse material.” The decision isn’t clear on this, but I assume this means that the defendants somehow sold images or videos of the abuse.……

  • Case of the Day: NEP Canada v. MEC OP Transaction I

    The case of the day is NEP Canada ULC v. MEC OP Transaction I ULC (Ohio Comm. Pl. 2022). With a name like this, you know a lot of money is at stake. MEC sold shares in one of its subsidiaries to NEP for $175 million. As part of the deal, NEP continued to employ……