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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……
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Case of the Day: CTB v. Twitter, Inc.
The case of the day, CTB v. Twitter, Inc., comes to Letters Blogatory courtesy of a hat-tip from the Trial Warrior Blog. “CTB” is a pseudonym for a British soccer player (I wouldn’t have any particular compunction about reprinting the name if I knew it, but I don’t). CTB sued a British newspaper and the……
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Judicial Assistance
The international law coverage of the charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn has focused, rightly, on the public international law question of whether Strauss-Kahn can assert a defense of immunity because he is the managing director of the IMF. Duncan Hollis at Opinio Juris has a post up about this. What about the judicial assistance aspects of the……