Tag: Spain

  • 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.……

  • 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……

  • 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……

  • 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……

  • Case of the Day: In re Application of Mare Shipping

    The case of the day is In re Application of Mare Shipping, Inc. (S.D.N.Y. 2013). The case arises out of the sinking of the Bahamian-flagged oil tanker MT Prestige, owned by Mare Shipping, Inc., a Liberian corporation, off the coast of Spain in 2002. In 2003, Spain sued the American Bureau of Shipping and related……