Tag: Mexico

  • Case of the Day: Grupo Radio Centro v. American Merchant Banking Group

    Yesterday’s case of the day, Hughes v. Ashton, was a pleasure to report: clear, and rightly decided to boot. No such luck with today’s case of the day, Grupo Radio Centro v. American Merchant Banking Group (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2011). The case involves difficulties in serving process in Mexico under the Hague Service Convention,……

  • Advice from the Trenches on Service of Process in Mexico

    Nelson Tucker, of Process Service Network, commented that there were some new hitches in serving process in Mexico under the Hague Service Convention. Intrigued, I checked out his blog, where he writes that the Mexican Central Authority is now imposing the following requirements: The summons must state that the defendant has 21 calendar days to……

  • Case of the Day: Zions First National Bank v. Moto Diesel Mexicana

    The case of the day is Zions First Nat’l Bank v. Moto Diesel Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. (E.D. Mich. 2011). According to the complaint, MDM, a Mexican firm, wrote several checks to another Mexican firm, Casa de Cambio Majapara S.A. The checks, which totaled more than $2 million, were drawn on Comerica Bank, in Detroit.……

  • Case of the Day: Opella v. Rullan

    The case of the day is Opella v. Rullan (S.D. Fla. 2011). Ray Opella sued Mauricio Alberto Rullan Diaz and Tecnologias Asociadas Internationales, S.A. de C.V., for fraud, conversion, unjust enrichment, etc. Opella served both Rullan and TAI by personal service in Mexico, performed by a Mexican notary public. After service of process, Rullan’s lawyer,……

  • Case of the Day: Mitchell v. Volkswagen Group of America

    The case of the day, Mitchell v. Volkswagen Group of Am., Inc. (N.D. Ga. 2010), shows the importance of checking the text of reservations to the Hague Conventions in their original language rather than relying on the English translation on the Hague Conference website. The claim was for product liability that resulted in the death……