Last Friday, Magistrate Judge Paul Kohler (District of Utah) granted a motion for alternative service of process, allowing ...

Over the past several months, three state appellate courts in the United States have examined whether a “talaq” divorce ...

This is just a reminder for those in the DC area that on Thursday and Friday the George Washington Law Review is hosting a ...

The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act discourages forum shopping in child custody disputes by assigning subject-matter jurisdiction to the court located in the “home state” of the ...

On May 21, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Havana Docks, a U.S. company, may sue U.S. cruise lines under the Helms-Burton Act for using docks confiscated by the Cuban government in 1960. Title ...

The federal wire fraud statute is a workhorse for federal prosecutors. In 2021, there were more than 4,500 federal prosecutions for fraud, theft, or embezzlement, constituting 8% of federal criminal ...

In MCC-Marble Ceramic Center, Inc., v. Ceramica Nuova d’Agostino, S.p.A. (1998), the Eleventh Circuit held that the American parol evidence rule does not apply in cases governed by the U.N. Convention ...

The threat to confiscate Russian assets is unprecedented for an additional reason: it involves assets of Russia’s central bank. To be sure, central bank assets have been the target of sanctions in ...

is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 There may yet be life in the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). The Ninth Circuit recently held, in Doe I v. Cisco Systems, Inc., that Chinese practitioners of Falun Gong ...

Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co. (Helmerich) is a U.S. company with a Venezuelan subsidiary (Helmerich (Venezuela)). Helmerich (Venezuela) provided services for Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A ...

The reach of U.S. law keeps changing. For decades—in fact, off and on for more than a century—U.S. courts have turned to the presumption against extraterritoriality to determine the geographic scope ...