Sarah Fackrell
Today at the Seventh Circuit: Oral arguments in the Hague service case, Kangol LLC v. Hangzhou Chuanyue Silk Import & Export Co., Ltd., 25-02205:

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And the panel is: Kirsch, Jackson-Akiwumi, Pryor
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Kirsch was also on the panel last Friday:

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Overall impression: Much higher level of advocacy overall. Not sure how the court will rule. The judges asked quite a few questions about whether they'd create a circuit split if they ruled for Kangol. There were a fair number of detailed, pointed questions about the Hague Convention & FRCP 4.
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Oh, and yes, lots of questions about the new Coney Island decision.
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Side note: There are a lot of good potential #LawStudentNote topics in here.
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Kangol really seemed to focus on the idea of waiver. The defendant engaged in settlement negotiations w/Kangol but defaulted in court. Kangol suggested that the defendant waived its arguments about personal jurisdiction and service because it didn't raise them in the settlement negotiations.