
[UPDATE, May 3, 2019… The tsunami now begins. Title III of the Helms-Burton Act has been implemented.]
With all the fanfare this month over the government shutdown and the Kansas City Chiefs’ coin-toss defeat in the AFC Championship, a little-noticed story


One of the odd quirks about serving an offshore defendant is the very routine possibility that plaintiff’s counsel could be contacted by the defense before a foreign authority notifies anyone that service has even been effected. A hypo, to illustrate…