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Locality
A court in Israel has ordered the government there to recognize marriages conducted by an officiant in Utah between Israelis attending remotely via videoconferencing from Israel. Why, you ask, would Israelis be interested in being married under Utah law? Under Israeli law, as under the law of the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate that……
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Case of the Day: Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation
The case of the day is Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation (S. Ct. 2022). Justice Kagan, who wrote the opinion for a unanimous court, is such a good writer that sometimes the cases she decides are harder than she makes them look. But I do think today’s case was an easy one. Paul Cassirer was……
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Interesting Issue of the Day: Recognition of Remote Civil Marriages In Israel
The Forward and friend of Letters Blogatory Eugene Volokh have both written about an interesting case before the Israeli Supreme Court. In Israel, which kept the old Ottoman laws on personal status after independence, all marriages must be contracted in a religious ceremony; there is no civil marriage. This law makes it impossible for some……
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Case of the Day: Germaninvestments AG v. Allomet Corp.
The case of the day is Germaninvestments AG v. Allomet Corp. (Del. Ch. 2019). Allomet is a Delaware corporation in the business of manufacturing metal powders for coating industrial products. Fobio Enterprises, Ltd., a Hong Kong company, owned the majority of Allomet’s shares. In 2016, it became the sole owner by purchasing shares from the……
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Kuwait Airlines Case: German Court Affirms Judgment Against Israeli Passenger
The Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt has affirmed a lower court decision rejecting a claim by an Israeli citizen who resided in Germany and who was forbidden to buy a ticket from Frankfurt to Bangkok via Kuwait City on Kuwait Airways.