As if the earth-shattering scandal surrounding Volkswagen’s EPA “defeat device” were old news, we have become accustomed to story after story of the company’s wrongdoing. When the spotlight was cast on VW subsidiary Audi earlier this year, the story didn’t make many waves, seemingly because it was expected. If the parent did it, why
Your defendant is a foreign government. Or a foreign government
[Author’s note: one of our staff members is a Brazilian attorney. While it’s not necessary that Brazilian counsel be involved, Julie has been a great addition to our staff and has a fantastic rapport with the Central Authority down
Channeling my inner Army Brat here… when you grow up inside the fortress, your brain necessarily uses combat analogies even if the only uniform you ever wore was in the Boy Scouts. Bear with me.
Before any ground assault, whether it involves footsoldiers or mechanized
Serving process abroad touches virtually every aspect of civil litigation.
It happens all the time. I’ll give a lecture or mention what I do at a bar association event, and the colleague I just met will express appreciation for what I do,
A bit of history is critical to knowing how to serve process in Taiwan. Depending on who you talk to, there are two Chinas. There’s the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Communist-run mainland, and then there’s Taiwan, the Republic of China (ROC), which is the descendant of the Nationalist regime that ruled China
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously this morning in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC that patent infringement suits can no longer be brought in the Eastern District of Texas. Okay, that’s not precisely what the Nine Eight Wise
I called it. It wasn’t a really stretch, but I was confident that this would be at least a 7-vote decision. In Water Splash v. Menon, the U.S. Supreme Court this morning held unanimously (8-0, sans
The world’s largest democracy. An ancient and intriguing land with no equal on the spectrum of diverse and exotic destinations. Seriously– India is not a single culture. It’s dozens of them, if not hundreds. Serving process in India is subject to the strictures of the Hague Service Convention, regardless of which U.S. or Canadian venue
We aren’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 is subject to the strictures of the Hague Service Convention, regardless of which U.S.
