Tag: Hague Evidence Convention

  • Case of the Day: Bodyguard Productions v. Musante

    The case of the day is Bodyguard Productions, Inc. v. Musante (D. Hawaii 2020). Bodyguard owned the copyright for a movie called The Hitman’s Bodyguard. It alleged that Alex Musante had infringed the copyright. The claim was that Musante had streamed the movie using a BitTorrent client. In an amended complaint, filed apparently after having……

  • Blockchain for Central Authorities?

    Burcu Yüksel and Florian Heindler have published a post on “Use of Blockchain Technology in Cross-Border Legal Cooperation under the Conventions of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH).” Jan Von Hein reviewed it at Conflict of Laws, and I’m going to review it here. I have a feeling that my post today will……

  • Case of the Day: Motorola v. Hytera

    The case of the day is Motorola Solutions, Inc. v. Hytera Communications Corp. (N.D. Ill. 2019). Motorola sought a forensic examination of several Hytera computers in China. The court denied the motion for reasons mostly having to with the timeliness of the request, which we need not consider here. But in an extended dictum, the……

  • Case of the Day: In re Request for International Judicial Assistance from the Court of First Instance of Macau

    The case of the day is In re Request for International Judicial Assistance from the Court of First Instance of the Special Administrative Region of Macau, 2nd Civil Court (N.D. Cal. 2019). A court in Macau made a request to the US Central Authority under the Hague Evidence Convention, seeking aid in obtaining answers to……

  • Case of the Day: In re Request for Judicial Assistance from the First Instance Court in Civil and Commercial Matters

    The case of the day is In re Request for Judicial Assistance from the First Instance Court in Civil and Commercial Matters No. 12 in Buenos Aires, Argentina (M.D. Fla. 2019). An Argentine court requested judicial assistance from the United States under the Hague Evidence Convention in order to obtain bank account statements for a……