Tag: Hague Service Convention

  • Case of the Day: Voltage Pictures v. Gussi

    The case of the day is Voltage Pictures LLC v. Gussi S.A. de C.V. (9th Cir. 2024). Voltage was an LA film production company. Gussi was a Mexican film distributor. The two companies had an agreement for the distribution of Ava in Latin America. Who is Ava, you ask? She is played by Jessica Chastain.……

  • Case of the Day: Regal Games v. SellerX Eight

    The case of the day is Regal Games, LLC v. SellerX Eight GmbH (S.D.N.Y. 2024). Regal had a contract with SellerX, a German Company, for the sale of its Chalk City line of sidewalk chalk. Regal brought a claim for breach of contract. It asked SellerX to waive service under FRCP 4(d), but SellerX refused.……

  • Case of the Day: In re Aperture Imaging Industries

    The case of the day is In re Aperture Imaging Industries Co. (Fed. Cir. 2024). Rotolight sued Aperture for patent infringement in the Eastern District of Texas. Aperture is based in China. Rotolight sought leave under Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 106(b) to serve Aperture by email served on its counsel. The court authorized the……

  • Case of the Day: Baikowitz v. Jacobson

    Happy new year! The case of the day is Baikowitz v. Jacobson (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2023). Baikowitz, the curator of his father’s property, sued Jacobson in Montreal seeking to recover $750,000, which he said his father had invested in several of Jacobson’s projects, on the grounds that his father had been mentally impaired when he……

  • Case of the Day: Doe v. Germany

    The case of the day is Doe v. Federal Republic of Germany (S.D.N.Y. 2023). It’s a weird one. A pseudonymous plaintiff, who claimed he was the person who leaked the Panama Papers, sued the German government for breach of contract, alleging that the government had breached a promise to pay him a portion of the……