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Case of the Day: Maroc Fruit Board v. M/V Almeda Star
The case of the day is Maroc Fruit Board, S.A. v. M/V Alemda Star (D. Mass. 2013). Like Maroc Fruit Bd. v. M/V Vinson, 2012 A.M.C. 2278 (D. Mass. 2012), which I covered last year, the case involved a claim of a shipment of fruit that went bad, but it seems that there were two……
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Case of the Day: Karpov v. Browder
The case of the day is Karpov v. Browder, [2013] EWHC 3071 (QB). The case arose out of the death of Sergei Magnitsky in a Russian prison in 2009. Magnitsky had been investigating a tax fraud committed in Russia. His death in custody was widely condemned, and in fact, the US enacted a new statute,……
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Case of the Day: Eikenberry v. Celsteel Ltd.
The case of the day is Eikenberry v. Celesteel Ltd. (S.D.N.Y. 2013). Eikenberry sued Celsteel Ltd. and Samuel Chand Chib. The claim was that Ralph Esmerian and R. Esmerian Inc. gave Eikenberry a security interest in an emerald necklace, but that Esmerian then transferred the necklace to Chib to extinguish a debt to Celesteel. The……
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Belfast Project: First Circuit Denies Government’s Petition for Panel Rehearing
The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has denied the government’s petition for a panel rehearing in the Belfast Project case. As I noted in my post on the petition, the government was not seeking to change the outcome of the case. Rather, it objected to the panel’s reasoning to the extent the panel……
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Hilton Extradition: The Government Responds
The government has replied to the Hilton habeas corpus petition that I discussed last month. This, recall, is the case of Alexander Hilton, accused of attempted murder in Scotland. In the initial proceedings for certification of extraditability, Hilton made two unsuccessful arguments: first, he cannot be extradited to Scotland because under Scots law he could……