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Case of the Day: In re Application of Ruiz
The case of the day is In re Application of Ruiz (S.D.N.Y. 2018). In 2017, European and Spanish banking regulators sold Banco Popular Español, a bank they thought failing, to Banco Santander for € 1. Investors in Banco Popular then sued in the EU’s Court of Justice, and some of them also brought investor-state arbitrations……
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Article of the Day: Alessandro Spinillo on the Madrid High Court of Justice and the Setting Aside of Arbitral Awards
Long-time Letters Blogatory commenter Alessandro Spinillo, an Argentine lawyer, has a new post at the Kluwer Arbitration Blog on The Madrid High Court of Justice and the Setting Aside of Arbitral Awards. The most interesting point in the post is that the Madrid High Court of Justice annuls awards more than 26% of the time.……
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Case of the Day: Goenechea v. Davidoff
The case of the day is Goenechea v. Davidoff (D. Md. 2016). Juan Miguel Goenechea was a Spanish lawyer. He advised Luis Rullan on the purchase of a summer camp in West Virginia. The purchase of the camp was at issue in Rullan v. Goden, a claim Rullan brought against Jill Goden. Goden’s lawyer, Jonathan……
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Case of the Day: Mare Shipping, Inc. v. Squire Sanders (US) LLP
The case of the day is Mare Shipping, Inc. v. Squire Sanders (US) LLP (2d Cir. 2014). The case arose out of the sinking of the Prestige, an oil tanker, off the coast of Spain in 2002, which resulted in a large oil spill. Apostolos Mangouras, the captain of the ship during the accident, had……
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Case of the Day: Cascade Yarns v. Knitting Fever
The case of the day is Cascade Yarns, Inc. v. Knitting Fever, Inc. (W.D. Wash. 2014). The claim in the case was for mislabeling of Knitting Fever’s yarns as to country of origin. Cascade wanted to take document discovery and depositions of the distributors of the accused yarn in Italy and Spain. Both Italy and……