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Breaking News: New Ruling in the Belfast Project Case
Yesterday, Judge Young ruled that most of the interviews Boston College turned over to him for in camera inspection need not be produced in response to the government’s second subpoena. The decision doesn’t rest on any high constitutional principles. Rather, the gist of the judge’s decision is that most of the materials are not within……
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Case of the Day: Belize Social Development Ltd. v. Government of Belize
The case of the day is Belize Social Development Ltd. v. Government of Belize (D.C. Cir. 2012). The Contract and the Arbitration In 2005, the Prime Minister of Belize, Said Musa of the People’s United Party, on behalf of the government, signed a contract with Belize Telemedia Ltd., under which Telemedia was going to acquire……
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Belfast Project Update
[UPDATED: I added a point 4, which is now the second-to-last paragraph] I was interviewed today on RTÉ Radio 1’s This Week program on the Belfast Project litigation here in Boston. I didn’t get to hear the whole program (or even my interview), but I did catch interviews that the reporter, Fran McNulty, had with……
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Upcoming Belfast Project Hearing
When I was in law school, Judge William G. Young, one of my favorite federal judges, would hold court occasionally in the moot courtroom in Austin Hall. And by “hold court” I don’t mean that he regaled the law students with war stories from his favorite cases. I mean that he literally held court. Lawyers……
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Case of the Day: Codemasters Group v. SouthPeak Interactive
The case of the day is Codemasters Group Holdings Ltd. v. SouthPeak Interactive Corp. (E.D. Va. 2011). Codemasters, an English video game developer, had a video game distribution agreement with SouthPeak, a Delaware corporation doing business in Virginia. Codemasters’ claim was that SouthPeak, its distributor, had failed to pay invoices for games Codemasters had shipped……