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Case of the Day: In re Hawker Beechcraft
The case of the day is In re Hawker Beechcraft, Inc. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2013). Hawker Beechcraft was an aircraft manufactuer. In November 2009, Hawker and Lider International Aviation, B.V., entered into a sales contract for a $3.9 million used Premier aircraft, and the sale was consummated. Lider later sold the aircraft to Helicoptor Finance LLC,……
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Case of the Day: Charleston Aluminum, LLC v. Energomex, S.A. de C.V.
I love today’s case of the day, Charleston Aluminum, LLC v. Energomex, S.A. de C.V. (D.S.C. 2013), because it deals with the rarely-construed Article 3 of the Hague Service Convention. Charleston Aluminum sued Energomex, a Mexican company; the facts of the case are not apparent from the decision. Charleston filed a “motion for Hague service,”……
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Case of the Day: Kita v. Superior Court
The case of the day is Kita v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County (Cal. Ct. App. 2013). Takahito and Kanako Kita were Japanese nationals who were married in Japan in 2003. They had two children, a son and a daughter, both born in Japan. In 2008, Takahito’s employer transferred him to its California office.……
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From Germany to China: The Nitty-Gritty of International Service, How To Fill In Forms and What To Translate
IJA Brigade member Peter Bert returns with a post on an interesting new German decision on the translation and proof of service provisions of the Hague Service Convention. Issues of international service are often rather mundane, not to say boring, technicalities. Nevertheless, in international litigation, service aboard is the eye of the needle, through which……
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Case of the Day: Alder v. Orłowska
IJA Brigade member Fanny Cornette is back with a look a Alder v. Orłowska, a new case from the European Court of Justice on fictitious service of process or notification au parquet in the European Union. Readers may recall that the case came up in the comments to Peter Bert’s piece on The Hague Service……