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Massachusetts Legislative Update
In December, I pointed to three bills being considered in the Massachusetts General Court: a bill to enact the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act; a bill to enact the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act; and a bill to enact the 2000 version of the Uniform Arbitration Act. As far as I can tell……
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Case of the Day: Maroc Fruit Board v. M/V Vinson
The case of the day, Maroc Fruit Board, S.A. v. M/V Vinson (D. Mass. 2012), is outside the Letters Blogatory scope of coverage. I’m covering it because it was decided here in Boston. According to the complaint, Maroc Fruit Board, a Moroccan firm doing business in Casablanca, delivered thousands of boxes of fruit to Agder……
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Two Blogs To Read
Letters Blogatory readers may be interested in two new blogs I recently discovered. First is the International Technology Law Blog, written by Chris Neumeyer of Asia Law, a Taipei law firm. The blog got started in May 2012, and Chris has already covered two issues of interest to Letters Blogatory readers: service of process by……
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Letters Blogatory Special Editorial: Slow Down on House of Lords Reform
It is looking increasingly likely that the UK is going to reform the House of Lords, which in practice seems to mean changing the Parliament into a bicameral (mostly) elected legislature, with a senate-like upper house, and the abolition of the right of hereditary peers to sit in the upper house. There is a long……
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A Brief Comment on the Julian Assange Diplomatic Asylum Request
The commentary on Julian Assange’s legal situation now that he has sought asylum at the Ecuadoran embassy in London has begun to roll in from the public international law blogs. I am basically unsympathetic to Mr. Assange, but in light of Letters Blogatory’s coverage of the Ecuadoran legal system in the context of the Lago……