Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Month: April 2015

  • Lago Agrio: Amazon Watch Posts Chevron “Outtakes”

    Yesterday Amazon Watch, an environmental group that has recently been in Chevron’s crosshairs, published a six-minute video showing one of the pre-inspection site visits that Chevron personnel conducted.

  • Case of the Day: Lombard-Knight v. Rainstorm Pictures

    The case of the day is Lombard-Knight v. Rainstorm Pictures, Inc. (Cal. Ct. App. 2015). Rainstorm was a California movie production company. It entered into two investment agreements with Fortnom & Co. SA, under which Fortnom was required to provide $300 million upon Rainstorm’s delivery to it of performance bonds. It turned out, according to…

  • Case of the Day: Core VCT plc v. Hensley

    The case of the day is Core VCT plc v. Hensley (D.D.C. 2015). Core VCT and Core VCT IV plc, both of which were English public limited companies with their principal places of business in London, sued James Hensley in the High Court. They obtained a default judgment there, and they brought an action for…

  • Lago Agrio: ICC Prosecutor Rejects LAPs’ Complaint

    In October 2014 I noted a complaint the LAPs submitted to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court asking her to begin an investigation with an eye toward bringing charges against Chevron. As I noted at the time, “It would be very surprising to me if the LAPs’ claims have merit.”

  • MCSquared’s FARA Problem: Not Very Interesting

    When MCSQuared’s failure to register under FARA became known last year, I fired off a FOIA request to try to obtain correspondence between the government and MCSquared on the issue.