I’m happy to welcome new commenter Jared Hubbard to Letters Blogatory! Jared has a practice in Newburyport, and before that was most recently an associate with White & Case. He knows whereof he writes, because he’s admitted to practice in Texas, and he was counsel to OPEC in the Freedom Watch case, which I’ve covered before. Welcome, Jared! One of the recent cases of the day, Chukapalli v. Mandava (Tex. Ct. App. 2017), raised an interesting loophole to international service requirements. In that case, the court reversed a default judgment as the plaintiff had not complied with the Hague Service Convention, but on remand no compliant service was required due to Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 123, which provides:

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