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Let’s Focus on the Real Issues
Letters Blogatory welcomes Nathalie Cely Suárez, Ecuador’s ambassador in Washington, who gives the Ecuadoran government’s perspective on Judge Kaplan’s decision. This is the second in today’s series of reactions to the Chevron decision from the protagonists. I invited Steven Donziger and his team to participate, but I did not receive their submission by my deadline.……
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Chevron Wins. What Now?
In this, the first of a series of responses to the RICO judgment in Chevron v. Donziger by representatives or allies of the protagonists, Chevron advocate Doug Cassel takes a victory lap and, in the last paragraph, holds out an olive branch. Two starkly differing narratives compete to explain the Lago Agrio environmental lawsuit against……
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Update: Georges v. United Nations
Here is the latest on Georges v. United Nations, the putative class action seeking to hold the UN liable for damages resulting from the cholera epidemic in Haiti that, apparently, was caused by UN peacekeepers. According to the plaintiffs, they sought to deliver the summons and complaint to UN officials at the UN headquarters in……
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Lago Agrio: The Next Round of Documents from the Office of the Legal Adviser
I have some more FOIA documents from the Office of the Legal Adviser to report.
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Case of the Day: Firstbank Puerto Rico v. Atlantic Finance Business Corp.
The case of the day is Firstbank Puerto Rico v. Atlantic Finance Business Corp. (D.P.R. 2014). Firstbank sued Atlantic Finance and Leovigildo Perez–Minaya for breach of contract. The defendants were served with process in the Dominican Republic, which is not a party to the Hague Service Convention or the Inter-American Convention.