Tag: Frolic and Detour

  • Event Announcement: Ontario Bar Association Event on International Commercial Arbitration

    Readers in Toronto, check out the Ontario Bar Association’s upcoming event,

  • Beer for Boston Bloggers

    Four Boston law bloggers got together for a beer after work today: Bob Ambrogi of Law Sites, Lee Gesmer of the Mass Law Blog, Russell Beck of Fair Competition Blog, and yours truly. It was good to meet in person (for those of us who didn’t already know each other) and exchange notes. I got……

  • Case of the Day: Giraldo v. Drummond Co.

    The case of the day is Giraldo v. Drummond Co. (N.D. Ala. 2013). The plaintiffs were the wives, parents, or children of people who had been murdered by the AUC paramilitary group in Colombia. They sued Drummond, which, it claimed, had made an agreement with the AUC to provide security for the area around one……

  • Case of the Day: AngioDynamics v. Biolitec

    My fellow Boston blogger Lee Gesmer has posted about a recent decision here in Massachusetts that is too good to pass up, even though it is not an international judicial assistance case. The case is AngioDynamics, Inc. v. Biolitec AG (D. Mass. 2013). According to the First Circuit’s decision in the case, here were the……

  • New! Social Sharing on Letters Blogatory

    Long-time readers will know that I have been fiercely and maybe ridiculously protective of personally-identifiable information belonging to Letters Blogatory readers. For example, I don’t use Google Analytics, relying instead on Piwik so that none of the analytics data I collect go to any third party. I don’t use a third-party email vendor, so those……