Comments on: Lago Agrio: Leonard, Lynch, and McMillen—and the John Does https://lettersblogatory.com/2013/10/22/lago-agrio-leonard-lynch-mcmillenand-john/ The Blog of International Judicial Assistance Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:01:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ted Folkman https://lettersblogatory.com/2013/10/22/lago-agrio-leonard-lynch-mcmillenand-john/#comment-1534 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:01:40 +0000 http://lettersblogatory.com/?p=16612#comment-1534 In reply to Charles Siegel.

Well, that makes two of us! Of course, any discussion of this issue has to take into account the reservation Texaco made of its right to challenge an eventual Ecuadoran judgment on the grounds permitted by New York law, so it may be, depending on what importance you ascribe to the stipulation, that this notion of estoppel is really for future cases, not for this case.

]]> By: Charles Siegel https://lettersblogatory.com/2013/10/22/lago-agrio-leonard-lynch-mcmillenand-john/#comment-1533 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:41:47 +0000 http://lettersblogatory.com/?p=16612#comment-1533 I can assure you that you’re not the only person who “take[s] seriously the idea that Chevron assumed the risk of unfair courts when it asked to have the case heard in Ecuador and made representations about the high quality of the Ecuadoran judiciary.”

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