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Courtroom Attendance as a Forum Conveniens Factor in Hamilton v Barrow

This post is written by Timon Milan Solár, Doctoral researcher, Faculty of Law, Trnava University, Slovakia. In October 2025, the High Court of England and Wales (King’s Bench Divi...

Is Access to Constitutional Remedies Subject to the Doctrine of Forum Non Conveniens?

Supreme Court strengthens access to constitutional remedies, holding that forum non conveniens has limited application in writ jurisdiction.

Chancery Enforces California Forum Selection Clause in Lawsuit to Invalidate Director’s Employment Agreement with Delaw...

The Delaware Court of Chancery recently dismissed a lawsuit by a Delaware corporation against its founder, former CEO, and former director that sought to invalidate the applicable...

Civil Procedure – Court finds diversity after ignoring fraudulently joined party

The EDVA court ruled that the substitute trustee was fraudulently joined, establishing complete diversity jurisdiction in a foreclosure-related breach of contract case. The post Ci...

7th Circ. Revives Chinese IP Defendants' Email Service Case

The Seventh Circuit concluded on Friday that using email to serve Chinese defendants in "Schedule A" trademark cases is improper under the rules of the Hague Service Convention, bu...

NOT AT HOME IN CALIFORNIA: Court Dismisses TCPA Vendor From Third-Party Suit For Lack Of Personal Jurisdiction

Hi TCPAWorld! In Gaines v. LPC Survival, LTD, No. CV 25-9291-JFW(Ex), 2026 WL 1772724 (C.D. Cal. June 16, 2026), the United States District Court for the Central District of Califo...

Baby Carrier Seeks Block Of Rival's 'End-Run' ITC Suit

A company that manufactures baby carriers asked an Idaho federal judge Thursday to order a rival litigant to withdraw its parallel complaint before the U.S. International Trade Com...

'Far-Reaching Implications': Hague Service Convention Bans Email Process Service to Chinese Defendants, Seventh Circuit...

"It ... means that many thousands of cases were wrongly decided, and default judgments were wrongly entered," said defendant-appellant counsel Wesley Johnson of Cross-Border Counse...

Up in Smoke: Eighth Circuit Sends Lanham Act Dispute to State Court

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a trademark dispute on forum non conveniens grounds, finding that the Lanham Act claims concerning ownership an...

Tuesday Talk*: Settlement Or Fraud Upon The Court?

The notice filed pursuant to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure stated that it was a voluntary dismissal with prejudice. Oddly, the notice went on to present argument...

Judge Won't Apply Foreign Court Orders To NY Stoli TM Fight

A Manhattan federal judge has ruled that a Russian state-owned company fighting with U.S.-based distributors over the trademark rights to Stolichnaya vodka cannot stop the distribu...

Hague Service Convention: A “Closed Universe” of Permissible Service Methods

Federal Court Dismisses UPF Lawsuit for Second Time

Illinois Customers Not Enough to Create Lanham Act Standing Without Illinois Injury

Specialty Publishing Company v. UDA Technologies, Inc., No. 1:25-cv-3873, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Jan. 13, 2026) (Coleman, J.). Judge Coleman granted Defendant UDA Technologies’ Fed. R...

Forum Shopping Could Fix the Delay Problem

Forum shopping, that taboo practice in which a litigant chooses the most favourable jurisdiction to try a case, is generally looked down upon. Indeed, courts frown upon the practic...

Supreme Court limits ability of foreigners to bring lawsuits for violations of international law

The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it far more difficult for foreigners to bring lawsuits in U.S. courts alleging serious violations of international law. In an opinion by Justice A...

International Law and American Courts: Part Two – The Framers' View

Patent and trademark – Patent infringement suits to remain in EDVA

Fleet Connect Solutions' patent infringement suits against Xirgo Technologies remain in EDVA after the court denied defendants' transfer motion to Illinois. The post Patent and tra...

Nonparty execs cannot enforce arbitration clause

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that nonparty executives cannot enforce an arbitration agreement against the Commonwealth of Virginia. The post N...

Judgment Mobility Rules in India’s Private International Law Regime: No place for a revision au fond?

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Massachusetts Court Dismisses Chapter 93A Claim Where ‘Center of Gravity’ Was Outside the Commonwealth

On May 7, 2026, in C.E.B. Inc. v. HCL America Inc., Judge Murphy granted defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 93A, Section 11 claim while al...

NO SECOND CALL, NO CLAIM- Court Dismisses Spoliation Allegations Over Choice Of Law, Expired Retention Rules, And Failur...

Supreme Court Confines §1519 Venue for Document Falsification Charges to Location of Alleged Falsification

Refusal to Enforce in Egypt of a Californian (U.S.) Judgment for Lack of Reciprocity: What Has Gotten into the Egyptian...

  I. Introduction Sometimes, reading court decisions leaves a strange sense of confusion, especially when the decision rendered not only contradicts a well-established line of case...