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Case of the Day: Brey Corp. v. LQ Management
The case of the day is Brey Corp. v. LQ Management, LLC (D. Md. 2012). Brey, a Maryland corporation, brought a putative class action against LQ, a Texas corporation, for violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The TCPA prohibits the use of fax machines to send unsolicited advertisements. Brey claimed that it had received……
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Case of the Day: Sanchez v. Metro Builders Corp.
The case of the day is Sanchez v. Metro Builders Corp. (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2012). Juan Sanchez was injured when working on a construction site in Poughkeepsie, New York. He testified that he had no memory of the circumstances of the accident. His uncle, Franklin Lituma, was an eyewitness to the accident and his testimony……
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Case of the Day: Lantheus Medical Imaging v. Atomic Energy of Canada
We return today to Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. v. Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., a case involving a US letter rogatory in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Here is my brief summary of the underlying facts from my first post on the case: In the underlying case, Lantheus Med. Imaging, Inc. v. Zurich Am.……
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Case of the Day: United States v. Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL
The case of the day is United States v. Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL (S.D.N.Y. 2012). Following a Drug Enforcement Agency investigation into an “alleged scheme to launder money through the U.S. financial system and the used car market, for the benefit of Hizballah, designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. Department of State,”……
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Case of the Day: Giraldo v. Drummond Co.
The case of the day is Giraldo v. Drummond Co. (N.D. Ala. 2012). According to the complaint, Drummond owned a coal mine in La Loma, in Colombia’s Cesar Province, and it shipped its coal from Santa Marta, in Magdalena Province. Both areas were under the control of the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,……