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Recent Private International Law Developments Before The Supreme Court Of Canada, Antonin I. Pribetic
Recent Private International Law Developments Before The Supreme Court Of Canada, Antonin I. Pribetic
Antonin I. Pribetic
A trilogy of interesting cases involving private international law recently wended their way to the Supreme Court of Canada: (1) King v. Drabinsky (an Ontario case addressing the applicability of the Charter in respect of the enforcement of a foreign judgment); (2) Teck Cominco Metals Ltd. v. Lloyd's Underwriters (a British Columbia case involving declaratory relief in the context of parallel proceedings and forum non conveniens); and (3) Yugraneft v. Rexx Management Corporation (an Alberta case which affirmed that the two-year limitation period under s.3 of Alberta's Limitations Act, governs when a party seeks the recognition and enforcement in Alberta …
Mixed Policies And Separability After Folksamerica, Graydon S. Staring
Mixed Policies And Separability After Folksamerica, Graydon S. Staring
Graydon S. Staring
The Kirby decision by the Supreme Court in 2004 is a landmark in admiralty jurisdiction of contracts with both marine and non-marine elements. The Folksamerica decision by the Second Circuit, the insurance case that follows it in 2005, is a distinctly important precedent requiring additional analysis from case to case in applying the new standard to insurance policies. The old prescription that maritime contracts be purely maritime with its exception for merely incidental non-maritime elements is overruled. Contracts apparently mixed are to be examined to determine whether their principal objective is to effectuate maritime commerce, and if so they are …
Comedy Or Tragedy: The Tale Of Diversity Jurisdiction Removal And The One-Year Bar, Michael W. Lewis
Comedy Or Tragedy: The Tale Of Diversity Jurisdiction Removal And The One-Year Bar, Michael W. Lewis
Michael W. Lewis
The current laws governing diversity removal are badly broken. They create counterproductive incentives that have increased the workload of federal courts while rewarding deceptive practices on the part of plaintiffs. Defendants have every incentive to remove even low value cases to federal court, on the chance that the vague and uncertain standards governing amount in controversy issues will allow them to succeed. At the same time, the current rules encourage plaintiffs to conceal the true value of their cases for one-year, to prevent removal to federal court, and then to reveal the true value, while using the one-year bar to …