Matt Slovin
Matt Slovin is an Ohio municipal attorney. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts in 2014 and from Harvard Law School in 2019. Before becoming a lawyer, he was a sports reporter for The (Nashville) Tennessean.
Seventh Circuit Limits Email Service on Foreign Defendants
Last Friday, the Seventh Circuit held in Kangol LLC v. Hangzhou Chuanyue Silk Import & Export Co., Ltd. that defendants located in China cannot be served by email when the Hague Service Convention applies. (Disclaimer: Bill Dodge and I filed an amicus in Kangol with the help of friend-of-the-blog Ted Folkman urging this result.) The…
Continue ReadingJurisdictional Puzzles about the Enforcement of Judgments & Arbitral Awards
Two recent cases highlight unsettled questions about jurisdictional limitations on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgements and arbitral awards. The first, Alterna Aircraft V B Ltd. v. SpiceJet Ltd., addressed whether due process requires the presence of property in the forum state if the court otherwise lacks personal jurisdiction over the debtor. In Alterna,…
Continue ReadingIf You Give a Mouse a Forum Selection Clause…
Many U.S. states have chosen to write “anti-waiver” provisions into statutory schemes that confer rights on in-state residents. Anti-waiver statutes provide that rights conferred by the statutory scheme cannot be waived. On a number of occasions, the courts have adopted “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” logic to hold that these statutes invalidate forum…
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