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.
Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft v. Schlunk, 486 U.S. 694 (1988). June 15, 1988, to be precise– thirty years ago today.
On the anniversary of the oral arguments last March, I wrote a bit more, but today is the anniversary of the opinion, written by Justice O’Connor, with all nine agreeing about the result (if not
An interesting case popped up on my newsfeed this afternoon (hat tip to Hwan Kim, writing for Sheppard Mullins’ Construction and Infrastructure Law Blog): Rockefeller Technology Investments (Asia) VII v. Changzhou
It’s pretty routine that a client (always someone from a law firm– lawyer, paralegal, or assistant) asks “okay, Aaron, what documents do you need to serve these guys?”
My response is always, “you tell
Bloggers follow other bloggers, especially in the world of law, and
A few weeks ago, I posted a bit of clarification as to the proof form used by foreign Central Authorities to satisfy Article 6 of the Hague Service Convention (see The Hague Service Certificate… Not Necessarily On The Form You Provide and also The Hague Certificate… it’s already in English). When we send a
A bit of 4L stuff here– the stuff they never mentioned in law school because it was so basic as to be assumed [ahem, we all know what assumptions do].
Your
Our handy-dandy “How to Serve Process in China” guide has been posted for quite some time. Pretty straightforward stuff, given that the Chinese declarations to the Hague Service Convention eliminate Article 10’s alternative methods from the equation. There’s only one way to get
This is a reboot of a post from last year, but it bears repeating: summonses in bankruptcy adversarial proceedings must be modified if they are to be served on a defendant located abroad. Not should. MUST.
The Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure govern how to manage an adversarial proceeding in Bankruptcy Court. Perfectly logical.
Here we go again. Every few weeks, somewhere in these 50 states, a case gets dismissed for lack of proper service on a foreign sovereign (or foreign state instrumentality). There’s not a single rule, statute, or customary practice that ought to tell a plaintiff that
