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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……
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Case of the Day: Gentile v. Biogen IDEC
Today’s case of the day, Gentile v. Biogen IDEC (D. Mass. 2013), is outside of Letters Blogatory’s scope of coverage, but I am writing about it anyway because it involves one of my favorite subjects in civil procedure, removal of cases from a state court to a federal court. In my first year of practice,……
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Chafin v. Chafin: Hague Convention, Mootness, Extraterritorial Authority and Futility
I know, I know, I’m supposed to be on vacation, but I didn’t want to let the week go by without publishing this comment on the Supreme Court’s new decision in Chafin v. Chafin by Letters Blogatory correspondent Charles T. Kotuby Jr. of Jones Day. This will be cross-posted at Conflict of Laws.net. We previewed……
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Letters Blogatory Mourns The Death of John P. Sinnott
I just learned of the death of John P. Sinnott, Esq. of Valdosta, Georgia. Mr. Sinnott didn’t know me, but I and other lawyers who have wrestled with chain legalization and the other nuts and bolts of preparing public documents for use abroad know him as the author of A Practical Guide to Document Authentication,……