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Case of the Day: Wuxi Taihu Tractor Co. v. York Group, Inc.
Our case of the day, Wuxi Taihu Tractor Co. v. York Group, Inc. (S.D. Tex. 2011), is a fairly straightforward application of waiver principles in a Hague Service Convention case. The parties were both manufacturers of coffins. The procedural posture of the case was somewhat complicated, but at bottom, York had sued Wuxi, a Chinese……
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Case of the Day: Myrtle v. Graham
In today’s case of the day, Myrtle v. Graham (E.D. La. 2011), Myrtle and British-American Insurance Group sued Graham and Aon Corp. for libel in the St. Tammany Parish District Court in Louisiana. The claim was that Graham, on behalf of Aon, had sent letters to various third parties falsely stating that Aon would no……
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Service By Mail Revisited
A few Letters Blogatory cases of the day have involved service by mail or by private delivery service. Service by mail is inexpensive; it provides pretty good assurance that the defendant has in fact received the papers served; and states need not permit service by mail if they have an objection to the use of……
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Case of the Day: Intercontinental Industries Corp. v. Luo
Our case of the day is Intercontinental Indus. Corp. v. Luo, Civ. A. No. 10-4174 (C.D. Cal. Jan. 20, 2011). Intercontinental sued Luo, the Communist Party Secretary of Hubei Province and owner of Wushan State Owned Industrial Holding Co., for fraud and violations of the RICO Act. The claim was that Luo induced Intercontinental to……
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From the Blogatory Meteorology Desk
I’m putting together a Hague Service Convention application for Bermuda today for a pending case in the D. Mass. And it was 5F / -15C while I waited for my train in Boston this morning. Which leads to my modest proposal for a new requirement under the Convention: when the temperature in the sending state……