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Kuwait Airways Case: German Court Allows Airline To Refuse To Sell Ticket To Israeli
You may recall the Kuwait Airways case, which I’ve written about several times: the airline refused to sell a ticket to an Israeli traveler flying from New York to London on the grounds that Kuwaiti law prohibited the carrier from doing business with Israelis. After some hemming and hawing, the Department of Transportation finally took……
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Case to Watch: Sahyouni v. Mamisch
I’m keeping my eye on Sahyouni v. Mamisch, Case No. C-372/16, a case in the EU Court of Justice. The husband and the wife, both Syrian nationals by birth, were married in an Islamic court in Homs, Syria in 1999. They moved to Germany, and both were German citizens. In 2013, the husband divorced the……
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Case of the Day: In re Takata
The case of the day is In re Takata (S.D. Fla. 2017). The Takata multi-district litigation is the case involving allegedly defective Takata air bags. One of the defendants was BMW, the German automaker. The plaintiffs sought to serve process via the Hague Service Convention, but the Regional Court in Munich refused to serve the……
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Case of the Day: Philipp v. Germany
The case of the day is Philipp v. Federal Republic of Germany (D.D.C. 2017). It involves the Guelph Treasure, the Welfenschatz. In 1929, a consortium of three Jewish art dealers, J&S Goldschmidt, I. Rosenbaum, and Z.M. Hackenbroch, purchased the Treasure from the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneberg. The Treasure included dozens of medieval reliquaries and other religious……
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Germany’s Position on Pre-Trial Discovery Softens!
Peter Bert, of Taylor Wessig, with important developments from Germany on execution of requests under Article 23 of the Hague Evidence Convention. This is cross-posted at his blog, Dispute Resolution in Germany. You read it here first, back in 2013, but at the time with a question mark, and then again in 2014 and 2015.……