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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……
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Project Belfast: Judge Young Denies Motion To Quash
We have been closely following the Boston College Project Belfast case. If you haven’t been following, this is the case in which the government, at the request of the UK authorities, issued a subpoena to Boston College’s Project Belfast for oral histories that BC researchers took from participants in the Northern Ireland conflict. The researchers……
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Update on the Belfast Project Case: The Proposed Intervenors’ New Brief
We return today to the Belfast Project saga. If you haven’t been following this, the case involves a request by the government of the UK for judicial assistance under the US/UK mutual legal assistance treaty for issuance of a subpoena to obtain oral histories that participants in the Northern Ireland conflict gave to researchers at……
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Case of the Day: US v. Kashamu
The case of the day is United States v. Kashamu (7th Cir. 2011). Buruji Kashamu, a Nigerian national, was indicted by a grand jury in the Northern District of Illinois in 1998 for conspiracy to import and distribute heroin. The indictment named him under his own name and under two supposed aliases: “Alaji” and “”Kasmal.”……