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Case of the Day: International School of Management v. Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs
The case of the day is International School of Management, Inc. v. Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (D. Kan. 2015). ISM ran executive education programs that awarded the degree of master of business administration. One of the programs was in France. ISM claimed that its accrediting body, ACBS, wrongfully terminated its accreditation on……
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In re Request for Judicial Assistance From the Norrköping District Court
The case of the day is In re Request for Judicial Assistance from the Norrköping District Court (D. Colo. 2015). In connection with paternity proceedings in a Swedish court, the Swedish judge issued a letter of request under the Hague Evidence Convention to the US central authority, and the central authority (the Department of Justice)……
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Case of the Day: Autodesk v. ZWCAD
The case of the day is Autodesk, Inc. v. ZWCAD Software Co. (N.D. Cal. 2015). The claim was for copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation; Autodesk claimed that ZWCAD, a Chinese firm, had committed a “wholesale theft of its proprietary source code.” There was a protective order in the case, but ZWCAD claimed that it……
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The Government’s Amicus Brief In POSCO
I noted the Federal Circuit’s curiosity about § 1782 in In re POSCO, a mandamus case in which the court, sua sponte, asked the parties and then the government to brief the question whether § 1782 is the exclusive means to obtain evidence for use in a foreign proceeding.
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Hague Service and Evidence Conventions: The US Central Authority’s Unusual Interpretation
A reader wrote in with the following case. He (a Mexican lawyer) asked PFI, the contractor that carries out the day-to-day work of the Department of Justice in its capacity as central authority for the United States under the Hague Service Convention, to serve a summons on a Mexican national in the United States. The……