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Case of the Day: Ido v. Attorney General
The case of the day is Ido v. Attorney General (11th Cir. 2014). Yelkal Ido, an Ethopian national, sought asylum in the United States. His claim, recounted in the Eleventh Circuit’s 2012 decision, was that he had ties to the Oromo Liberation Front, an “outlawed nationalist movement that has taken up arms against the Ethiopian……
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Lago Agrio: Another Unfounded Accusation Of Impropriety
I’m sorry to have to report that advocates for the Lago Agrio plaintiffs or Steven Donziger have again issued a press release making false accusations of impropriety. This time, the target is Judge Kaplan, and the claim is that he failed to disclose a financial interest in Chevron: