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Case of the Day: Dahman v. Embassy of Qatar
The case of the day is Dahman v. Embassy of Qatar (D.D.C. 2019). I wrote about the case last year. El-Sayed Dahman, an accountant, worked for the Embassy of Qatar. The embassy terminated his employment, perhaps as a matter of policy due to his age, and he brought an action for age discrimination. So far,……
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Case of the Day: African Growth Corp. v. Angola
The case of the day is African Growth Corp. v. Republic of Angola (D.D.C. 2018). The plaintiff was a US company in the real estate business in Luanda, Angola’s capital. Its claim was that Gen. Antonio Andrade and his son, Capt. Miguel Kenehele, with their “heavily-armed security detail,” had wrongfully seized and occupied some of……
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Case of the Day: Edwards v. Nigeria
The case of the day is Edwards v. Federal Government of Nigeria (D. Mass. 2018). In 2013, hundreds of local governments in Nigeria sued the Nigerian federal government and three federal officials in the Federal High Court, seeking “to recover money allegedly owed to them.” Dr. Ted Iseghohi Edwards claimed that he was a consultant……
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Case of the Day: In re Grand Jury Subpoena
You may have seen some intrigue in the news recently. The Special Counsel’s office was arguing an appeal in Washington. The case was under seal, and the subject matter was so super-secret that the court didn’t just close the courtroom, it closed an entire floor of the courthouse so that no one would know who……
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DNC v. Wikileaks: Russia Asserts Immunity
In its lawsuit against Wikileaks, Russia, and others, the Democratic National Committee has effected service on Russia under 28 U.S.C. § 1608(a)(4), slowest and most solemn method of service in foreign sovereign cases, and the only one that is more or less guaranteed to work. By diplomatic note, Russia returned the documents that the United……