Tag: Hague Service Convention

  • Water Splash: My Prediction

    Okay, one last thought on the Water Splash case, which is being argued tomorrow. My skill at prediction has proved poor again this year during the NCAA tournament, but maybe I can do a little better in predicting the outcome of this case. After all, there are at most nine possible vote totals in the……

  • Water Splash v. Menon: The Last Post Before The Argument

    Just a few things to report on the Water Splash v. Menon case, which the Supreme Court will hear next week. First, here is the petitioner’s reply brief. I am not going to review the reply brief in detail.

  • Case of the Day: United States v. Public Warehousing Co.

    The case of the day is United States v. Public Warehousing Co. KSC (N.D. Ga. 2017). The government’s claim was that the Public Warehousing Co. and Sultan Center Food Products, two Kuwaiti companies, had overcharged the United States on government contracts. According to the judge, for six years, the government and the relator “have been……

  • Water Splash v. Menon: The Respondent’s Brief

    The respondent has filed her brief in Water Splash v. Menon, the case on Article 10(a) of the Hague Service Convention. I am not going to comment at length on the details of the brief. May I gently suggest that if you’re talking about Plato’s theory of forms or John Finnis on natural law in……

  • Water Splash: Notes on Volkswagen from the new ABA Treatise

    The publication of the new ABA treatise, which I noted yesterday, reminded me that I had already written about the question I noted last month in my discussion of the government’s amicus brief in the Water Splash case, namely whether the Hague Service Convention applies to all judicial documents, or just to the summons and……