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Lago Agrio: Chevron Settles With Patton Boggs
Yesterday Chevron settled its claims against Patton Boggs. This was probably inevitable after the dismissal of Patton Boggs’s claims against Chevron. Patton Boggs is trying to consummate a merger with Squire Sanders, and it’s hard to imagine anyone agreeing to the merger while Chevron’s claim was unresolved.
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Provide Your Thoughts On The Draft Practical Handbooks!
Readers, as you may remember, I’m heading to the Hague in a couple of weeks as part of the International Technology Law Association delegation to the Special Commission meeting concerning the Service, Evidence, and Access to Justice Conventions. The delegation will be headed by Alex Blumrosen of Bernard-Hertz-Béjot in Paris. The Hague Conference has published……
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Case of the Day: Moore v. Bertuzzi
The case of the day is Moore v. Bertuzzi, 2014 ONSC 1318. In a February 2004 hockey game, Steve Moore, who played for the Colorado Avalanche, checked Markus Näslund of the Vancouver Canucks, causing some injuries. No penalty was called, and after the game, several Canucks players, including Todd Bertuzzi, as well as the Canucks’……
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Case of the Day: Minis v. Thomson
The case of the day is Minis v. Thomson (D. Mass. 2014). According to the applicants’ brief, Loserian Minis, Joshua Makko, and Lotha Nyaru were plaintiffs in an action in the High Court of Tanzania, Mondorosi Village Council v. Tanzania Breweries Ltd. The claim was that the plaintiffs, “Maasai pastoralists who have historically resided in……
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Case of the Day: St. Philip Catholic Church v. Kubicek
The case of the day is St. Philip Catholic Church v. Kubicek (Cal. Ct. App. 2014). Josef Kubicek borrowed 19 million Czech crowns from three parishioners of St. Philip’s church in 1992, promising to repay them by 1995. When he defaulted, the Church, which had guaranteed the loans, repaid the parishioners and then sued Kubicek……