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Elena Kagan, the new Solicitor General of the United States, had a few notable private international law cases on her desk when she arrived at her new job this past March. By then, the Court had invited the views of the Solicitor General in the first Hague Convention case to garner serious attention since Schlunk […]
On Monday, the Eleventh Circuit rendered an interesting opinion in the case of
I just caught wind of an interesting new read from Oxford University Press. Here’s the quick
In this round-up of significant U.S. decisions during the first two months of 2009, we’ll focus on two areas of law that generate a lot of jurisprudence at the appellate level. A. Jurisdiction for Acts Occurring Abroad Two federal statutory schemes—the first a response to the events of September 11, the second a 200 year […]
As previously mentioned on
On this blog, we have long noted the splits of authority among U.S. courts regarding the operation of the Hague Abduction Convention. (See
National Bank of Australia purchased U.S. mortgage service provider HomeSide Lending Inc. in 1998. Three years later, the bank was forced to admit that its calculations on the amount of fees HomeSide was generating from servicing mortgages were overstated. This led to the bank announcing two write-downs in 2001 totaling $2.2 billion. As a result, […]
This is certainly not the first case, or the last case, to discuss the inherent conflict that results when a state provides that foreign marriages should be recognized, but nonetheless bans a certain form of marriage that is permitted elsewhere. It does, however, illustrate a noteworthy approach where the two states are worlds-apart in their […]
Ted Field, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent has recently posted an Article entitled