Estate Planning

P.R. Chinas First Statute on Choice of Law (translated in English)
Following up on Xiao Fang’s excellent post here regarding the Statute on the Application of Laws over Foreign-Related Civil Relations of the People?s Republic of China which shall come into force as of April 1, 2011 and is the P...

Joe Paterno ... From Bad to Worse
Over the past several months, Joe Paterno's family and their proxies have been busy attempting to protect his legacy. After...

Paterno's Death Causes Key Grand Jury Testimony to Be Inadmissible Under Sixth Amendment
Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno passed away on Sunday, a victim of lung cancer. Paterno's legacy in the wake of the recent child sexual abuse allegations against one of his long-time assistant coaches, Jerry Sandusky, is still being written, but Paterno's death may have an immediate impact in one area, The New York Times reports: the ongoing prosecution against former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and former university senior vice president Gary Schultz...

Cal Supremes Resolve Important Conflict of Laws Issue
Cal Biz Lit blogged here on McCann v. Foster Wheeler (2008), ___Cal.Rptr.___, Superior Court of Los Angeles County; BC336869. The case dealt with a conflict between Oklahoma?s pro-business statute of repose, which would bar the plaintiff?s claim, and Code of...

Twitter a reliable source on news of Paterno's death
Unfortunately much of the news of Penn State Coach Joe Paterno's death this morning surrounds early false reports of his death. The Seattle Times reports 'Joe Paterno death rumors flood Twitter...

French Supreme Court Applies Blocking Statute
I should have reported much earlier this interesting case of the French Supreme Court for Private and Criminal Matters (Cour de cassation) which applied for the first time the French 1980 statute which criminalizes cooperation with U...