Kirk Hartley
Thanks to Argentina, Suing Foreign Sovereigns Just Became More Attractive
Litigation against foreign sovereigns received a boost from yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling allowing discovery against foreign sovereigns to...
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Kirk Hartley
- Dec 23, 2013
- 1 min
Motley Rice Wins Against Saudi Arabia in 9/11 Litigation
Mass tort litigation against sovereigns remains an intriguing issue. In the Second Circuit, Motley Rice recently won reversal of the...
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Kirk Hartley
- Aug 6, 2012
- 2 min
Niche Litigation – The Small Picture and the Big Picture as Illustrated by International Arbit
Today, niche litigation creates an amazing three-dimensional chess board for moves and counter-moves. For example, Russia has now lost...
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Kirk Hartley
- Dec 18, 2011
- 3 min
New Book on State Liability in Investment Treaty Litigation
Set out below is an ad I received for an interesting looking book on state liability claims. The topic to me is interesting because...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jul 26, 2011
- 2 min
Torts, Governments and Freedom of the Press
Everything is relative in the world of injuries and torts. In the US, defendants and plaintiffs jockey back and forth, and lobby for...
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Kirk Hartley
- May 11, 2011
- 1 min
Sovereigns, Torts and Bribes
It seems inevitable that sovereign liability issues will continue to grow; several posts on this topic are indexed under the heading ...
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Kirk Hartley
- Feb 21, 2011
- 1 min
Chinese Government Hit With Default Judgment for Stealing Sofware Code for Use in Supressing Interne
A National Law Journal article reports that the Chinese government has been hit with a default judgment in a tort case. Through February...
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Kirk Hartley
- Feb 21, 2010
- 3 min
Sovereigns and Their Roles Related to Commercial Activities Involving Substances that Present Health
Here’s an invitation for readers to guest blog or comment on a question related to mass tort litigation, governments and substances that...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jan 22, 2010
- 3 min
Australia and Asbestos – The James Hardie Saga, Its Asbestos Claim Payment Foundation –
Now it’s west (from Chicago) to Australia, asbestos and the public company fiber cement business commonly known as James Hardie. The...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jan 8, 2010
- 2 min
Conflict of Interests and International Tort Claims for Persons from Many Countries – The Liby
Here is an unexpected but interesting non-asbestos example of conflict of interest issues arising from efforts to resolve “mass torts”...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jan 7, 2010
- 5 min
Chapter 11 Cases Fail to Properly Deal with Future International Claims Against Multinationals Heavi
The point of today’s post is to focus attention on issues and topics that arise from relationships between insolvencies and...
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Kirk Hartley
- Jan 4, 2010
- 1 min
Global Asbestos Claiming – Report on Asbestos Litigation in Nine Nations – Munich ReR
Here is the online image of Munich Re’s recent, comprehensive report on asbestos litigation, Asbestos: Anatomy of a Mass Tort. The 112...
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Kirk Hartley
- Dec 30, 2009
- 5 min
Eternit, Etex and Asbestos Cement – Global Scale, Decades Ago – How to Deal with Current
Monday’s post (12/26) pointed out a variety of product liability, corporate law and compensation issues in the context of one nation...
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Kirk Hartley
- Dec 28, 2009
- 7 min
Focusing this Week on Global Issues and Future Claims, Starting with Articles on Growing Asbestos Ce
I keep falling off the “global” side of things. So, this week, I’ll make a special effort to be more global. This week I’m also going to...
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Kirk Hartley
- Nov 29, 2009
- 2 min
Update on China’s Tainted Milk Scandal – Bankruptcy, Executions and Civil Court Hearings
Milk intentionally altered with melamine sickened around 300,000 thousand children in China The aftermath includes civil suits in China...
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Kirk Hartley
- Nov 27, 2009
- 1 min
Taking Discovery Against the UK’s FSA Regulatory Agency ?
Here is an interesting paper from the Lehman bankruptcy. It is a motion for discovery against the UK’s Financial Services Authority and...
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Kirk Hartley
- Nov 19, 2009
- 2 min
State Secrets Privilege – Should The Alleged Victim Be Compensated When the Government Chooses
Here is an interesting NLJ article on the state secrets privilege from a law professor and dean with an impressive background in both...
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Kirk Hartley
- Nov 6, 2009
- 2 min
Binding a Successor Corporation to a Forum Selection Clause in International Litigation Related to a
With a hat tip to Mondaq, this article from Proskauer summarizes a recent 2d Circuit ruling holding that forum selection clauses may be...
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Kirk Hartley
- Oct 15, 2009
- 1 min
SEC Sued by Investor for Failing to Stop Mr. Madoff’s Scheme
Here is a link to an American Lawyer article detailing a defrauded investor’s suit against the SEC for failing to uncover and stop Mr....
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Kirk Hartley
- Sep 24, 2009
- 2 min
United States to Limit Use of the State Secrets Privilege for Civil Litigation ?
This September 23 NYT article by Charlie Savage describes Obama administration plans to deploy rules that limit the use of the state...
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