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Case of the Day: BonSens v. Pfizer
The case of the days BonSens.org v. Pfizer, Inc. (2d Cir. 2024). BonSens is an organization of “concerned scientists, medical doctors, legal experts and citizens.” It brought an action in France seeking to nullify an indemnification clause in an advance purchase agreement Pfizer and BioNTech, manufacturers of COVID vaccines, had made with the European Commission……
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Case of the Day: Doe v. d’Espalungue d’Arros
The case of the day is Doe v. d’Espalungue d’Arros (W.D. La. 2023). The claims in the case arose out of an alleged sexual assault at a church retreat organized by the “Ragin’ Cajun Catholics,” the college ministry of Our Lady of Wisdom Catholic Church at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The defendant, Edouard d’Espalungue……
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Case of the Day: Scalin v. Société Nationale SNCF
The case of the day is Scalin v. Société Nationale SNCF SA (7th Cir. 2021). The plaintiffs were the descendants of Jews in France whom the authorities sent to death camps on trains operated by the French national railroad, the defendant. The railroad workers stole the Jews’ belongings and gave them to the Nazis, and……
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Case of the Day Behrens v. Arconic
The case of the day is Behrens v. Arconic, Inc. (E.D. Pa. 2019). The case arose out of the Grenfell Tower tragedy in 2017. The cladding on the building that allegedly exacerbated the fire was manufactured by AAP S.A.S., a French subsidiary of Arconic. In discovery, the plaintiff sought documents that, according to Arconic, were……
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Case of the Day: Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger v. Kogan
The case of the day is Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger v. Kogan (N.D. Cal. 2018). Dan Shefet, the president of the Association for Accountability and Internet Democracy, a French group, and Sabine Leurheusser-Schnarrenberger, the former German minister of justice, sought leave to serve a subpoena on Aleksandr Kogan under § 1782. Both Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and Shefet had Facebook accounts.……