Month: July 2014

  • FOIA: Next Moves

    Having been unable to get the State Department to tell me whether it is willing to give me copies of the correspondence between it and Chevron concerning whether some of the public records I requested in my first FOIA request should be withheld on confidentiality grounds, I have now filed a motion asking the judge……

  • Case of the Day: Senah, Inc. v. Xi’an Forstar S&T Co.

    The case of the day is Senah, Inc. v. Xi’an Forstar S&T Co. (N.D. Cal. 2014). Senah had sued Xi’an but had voluntarily dismissed the action in order to start over and serve Xi’an with process in accordance with the Hague Service Convention.

  • Case of the Day: Commissions Import Export SA v. Republic of the Congo

    The case of the day is Commissions Import Export S.A. v. Republic of the Congo (D.C. Cir. 2014). This is the appeal of the decision I reported in January 2013. The holding in the District Court was that where a party to a foreign arbitration has obtained a judgment confirming the award from a foreign……

  • Cartas Blogatorias Starts Today

    Readers, if you’re looking for great Spanish-language coverage of international litigation, check out Letters Blogatory’s sister blog, Cartas Blogatorias, which opens for business today. I’m very excited about this and grateful to the new blog’s editors-in-chief, Javier Ochoa Muñoz and Claudia Madrid Martínez, for all their efforts getting this off the ground. At the bottom……

  • Lago Agrio: New State Department Records Show Extent Of Lobbying

    The latest batch of FOIA records from the State Department shed further light on the lobbying concerning the Lago Agrio case. Among other interesting items, we now know that Chevron’s CEO personally lobbied the Secretary of State. Read on!