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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,……
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Letters Blogatory Makes The ABA Blawg 100
Thank you to everyone who nominated Letters Blogatory for the ABA Blawg 100, the ABA’s annual list of the best 100 legal blogs. I’m happy to announce that Letters Blogatory made the cut this year. It’s an honor to be on a list with blogs like the China Law Blog, Litigation and Trial, Popehat, and……
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Get Your Britten On
In the next year you will be hearing a lot about Benjamin Britten, one of the great English composers, whose centenary will be celebrated in 2013. The Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline, the community choir I sing with, will be performing Britten’s cantata, Saint Nicolas, on Saturday, Nov. 17, at 8 pm at All Saints Parish,……