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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……
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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……
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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……
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Come Hear Karl Jenkins’s The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace
My choir, the Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline, is performing Karl Jenkin’s The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace on May 4 at Jordan Hall. If you are in Boston, please do come! The Armed Man, a 21st century anti-war composition, evokes the descent into war; moments of reflection; the horrors that war brings; and the……
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Smith v. Johansen: Service by Drone?
The case of the day is Smith v. Johansen (D. Mass. 2013). The underlying facts are prosaic and unimportant: Alonzo Smith, the owner of a company that manufactures long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, or “drones,” for both military and civilian purposes (more on that in a minute), had lent money to Einar Johansen, a geologist and……