I took Civ Pro from a giant.
When I say giant, I mean in the figurative sense, because he’s only 5’7″ or so, but this diminutive fellow remains among the most talented and effective teachers I’ve ever had. He
Notice pleading, y’all.
Civ Pro for 4L’s: Serving Abroad and 12(b) Motions to Dismiss
A bit of 4L stuff here– the stuff they never mentioned in Civ Pro class* because it was so basic as to be assumed [ahem, we all know what assumptions do]. Your assigned readings today are limited (mercifully) to Fed. R. Civ. P.
How to Serve Process in the Cayman Islands (updated 2022)
We ain’t building rockets here. But we are building a ship of sorts, and a leaky hull means the cruise ship might not get you to that cabana sheltered rum drink you’ve been craving. Serving process in the Cayman Islands
How to Serve Process in Australia (updated 2022)
Many of us have a certain image of Australia pressed into our minds because of Hollywood. It’s either Crocodile Dundee or The Crocodile Hunter or… hang on, is there just something about crocodile guys with Down Under accents that make
How to Serve Process in Singapore
At the far south end of the Malay Peninsula lies a tiny city state that occasionally makes the news for seemingly odd reasons. Caning and imprisonment as a punishment for vandalism. A ban on chewing gum (seriously). A ban
How to Serve Process in Finland
I say all the time that we ain’t building rockets here. But we are communicating. And if your phone doesn’t work correctly, you have problems. The sturdiest cellphone I ever owned was a decade ago– in the pre-smartphone days. It was a
Service on a Foreign Defendant’s U.S. Counsel
An interesting and seemingly Hague-related case came to light this week, and it came specifically to my attention thanks to the NorCal IP Blog by the guys at Orrick Herrington.* As it turns out, it isn’t a Hague
You Can’t Simply Serve the Secretary of State
Two weeks ago, I posted that you can’t simply serve a U.S. subsidiary of a foreign company & get the parent on the hook in a lawsuit. For such an idea to work, your state’s public policy has to disregard the
Name the correct foreign entity
My BusOrg professor in law school was a bigtime Boston Red Sox fan. We didn’t hold it against him at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, because we sort of knew the pain Sox fans had felt for so long (they went 86 years between World Series titles; the Royals only went thirty, but
Arbitration– a bright idea for international dispute resolution
I’m not a fan of arbitration, as a general rule—especially in consumer contracts.* That said, arbitration is far superior to litigation in many situations, and for many reasons.
In tort, not a good idea. Certainly not an appropriate venue for a family law dispute. And consumer contracts? Just… no. Only the vendor benefits.* But