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Case of the Day: RECARO North America v. Holmbergs Childsafety Co.
The case of the day is RECARO North America, Inc. v. Holmbergs Childsafety Co. (E.D. Mich. 2011). RECARO, a child safety seat manufacturer, claimed that the defendants, Holmbergs Childsafety Co., a Hong Kong company, and its affiliates, Gnosjö-Gruppen AB and Holmbergs Childsafety AB, both Swedish companies, designed and manufactured the “A-locks” that it used in……
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Case of the Day: Costa v. Kerzner International Resorts
Update: Due to a problem with my HTML, I published a garbled version of this article this morning. Here’s the corrected version! The case of the day is Costa v. Kerzner International Resorts, Inc. (S.D. Fla. 2011). Jennifer Costa, who had been a guest at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, sued the resort’s on……
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Case of the Day: Strauss v. Credit Lyonnais
The case of the day, Strauss v. Credit Lyonnais, S.A. (E.D.N.Y. 2011), raises issues we have not previously considered. The plaintiffs were American victims of terrorist attacks carried out in Jerusalem by Hamas, and members of their family. They sued Credit Lyonnais under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1992, alleging that the bank had provided material……
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New Hague Conference Table on the Hague Evidence Convention
The Hague Conference on Private International Law has recently published a helpful table showing which states have made an Article 23 declaration, and what kind of declaration they have made. Article 23 is the bête noire of American lawyers seeking documentary discovery abroad: it provides: A Contracting State may at the time of signature, ratification……
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Case of the Day: Tiffany (NJ) LLC v. Qi
The case of the day is Tiffany (NJ) LLC v. Qi (S.D.N.Y. 2011). Tiffany & Co., the jewelers, brought a trademark infringement action against Qi Andrew, Gu Gong, Sliver Deng, and Kent Deng, who, they allege, were selling Tiffany knockoffs on the Internet. According to Tiffany, the defendants accepted payments in US dollars and used……