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Case of the Day: Missouri v. China
The case of the day is Missouri ex rel. Schmitt v. People’s Republic of China (E.D. Mo. 2022). This was my “unmeritorious case of the day” from April 27, 2020, and the subject of my informal Letters Blogatory amicus post in March 2021. The state of Missouri sued the Chinese state, as well as several……
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Case of the Day: Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation
The case of the day is Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation (S. Ct. 2022). Justice Kagan, who wrote the opinion for a unanimous court, is such a good writer that sometimes the cases she decides are harder than she makes them look. But I do think today’s case was an easy one. Paul Cassirer was……
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Case of the Day: Hulley Enterprises v. Russian Federation
The case of the day is Hulley Enterprises, Ltd. v. Russian Federation (D.D.C. 2022). It involves the $50 billion arbitral award that shareholders in Yukos Oil Co. obtained against Russia in 2014 after alleging, in an arbitration in the Netherlands, that Russia had violated the Energy Charter Treaty by measures intended to “bankrupt Yukos, appropriate……
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Case of the Day: Mohammad v. Consulate of Kuwait
An administrative assistant at the Kuwaiti consulate defeated Kuwait’s sovereign immunity arguments in an employment-related lawsuit. Continue Reading Case of the Day: Mohammad v. Consulate of Kuwait
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Case of the Day: Ambar v. Germany
The case of the day is Ambar v. Federal Republic of Germany (D.D.C. 2022). The story involves a look at Germany’s laws stripping Jews of their citizenship, their nationality, and their property, and Germany’s post-war efforts to make amends. Salo Feuerwerk was a Viennese Jew who owned a building in Berlin. In 1935, Germany adopted……