Tag: India

  • Case of the Day: Amaprop Ltd. v. Indiabulls Financial Services Ltd.

    The case of the day is Amaprop Ltd. v. Indiabulls Financial Services Ltd. (S.D.N.Y. 2012). The underlying dispute is probably very complicated and in any case not really relevant for Letters Blogatory purposes. Suffice it to say that Amaprop and Indiabulls had arbitrated a dispute, that the award was in favor of Amaprop in the……

  • Case of the Day : French Cour de cassation, May 12th 2012 (N°11-15.508)

    This is the first guest-post by Fanny Cornette, a member of Letters Blogatory’s IJA Brigade. Fanny holds positions at the Université de Rouen and the Université du Havre I would like to thank Ted for welcoming me as a French correspondent for his blog. For my first post, I would like to give an example……

  • Case of the Day: Glenwood Systems v. Thirugnanam

    The case of the day, Glenwood Systems, Inc. v. Thirugnanam (C.D. Cal. 2012), is a good reminder why you cannot safely leave foreign evidentiary issues to the end of your case. Glenwood was a medical billing company in Connecticut. It sued Venkatesan Thirugnanam and Senthil Sundaresan, software engineers who founded Augment U.S., on a claim……

  • Case of the Day: Cephalon, Inc. v. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries

    The case of the day is Cephalon, Inc. v. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. (D.N.J. 2011). Cephalon, which manufactures Gabitril (a drug for treating epilepsy), sued Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., an Indian drug manufacturer, alleging that Sun was planning to launch a generic version of Gabitril that would infringe on Cephalon’s patent. Cephalon served the summons……

  • Case of the Day: Gurung v. Malhotra

    The case of the day, Gurung v. Malhotra (S.D.N.Y. 2011), involves unsavory allegations of mistreatment of a domestic laborer by a foreign official. Shanti Gurung sued Neena Malhotra, the Counselor of Press, Culture, Information and Community Affairs at India’s consulate general in New York, and her husband, Joseph Malhotra. The claim was that the Malhotras……