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Martyniszyn on Transnational Discovery in Antitrust Cases
I wanted to call attention to an interesting new paper by Marek Martyniszyn, a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a friend of Letters Blogatory, titled Discovery and Evidence in Transnational Antitrust Cases: Current Framework and the Way Forward, available on SSRN. Here……
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Case of the Day: Glenwood Systems v. Thirugnanam
The case of the day, Glenwood Systems, Inc. v. Thirugnanam (C.D. Cal. 2012), is a good reminder why you cannot safely leave foreign evidentiary issues to the end of your case. Glenwood was a medical billing company in Connecticut. It sued Venkatesan Thirugnanam and Senthil Sundaresan, software engineers who founded Augment U.S., on a claim……
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Update: The Sedona Conference’s International Principles
In February I posted on the American Bar Association’s resolution encouraging courts to “consider and respect, as appropriate, the data protection and privacy laws of any applicable foreign sovereign” in discovery matters. Now the Sedona Conference has published International Principles on Discovery, Disclosure & Data Protection, which are in the same spirit as the ABA……
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Case of the Day: In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation
The case of the day is In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation (E.D.N.Y. 2012). The decision does not give details of the underlying dispute, though the title of the case (a multi-district litigation consolidated in the Eastern District of New York) pretty much says it all. The issue was whether the defendant, Société……
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Case of the Day: TruePosition v. LM Ericsson Telephone Co.
The case of the day is TruePosition, Inc. v. LM Ericsson Telephone Co. (E.D. Pa. 2012). TruePosition is in the business of “developing and marketing high accuracy location products that operate over cellular telecommunications networks.” TruePosition sued three firms, LM Ericsson Telephone Co., Qualcomm, Inc., and Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc., for violating the Sherman Act by……