Month: April 2017

  • Case of the Day: Leibovitch v. Iran

    The case of the day is Leibovitch v. Islamic Republic of Iran (7th Cir. 2017). The plaintiffs were the victims of a terrorist attack in Jerusalem by members of Palestine Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group supported by the government of Iran. The plaintiffs had a default judgment against Iran for $67 million. Seeking to collect,……

  • Lago Agrio: Donziger’s Cert. Petition

    Steven Donziger has filed his petition for a writ of certiorari seeking Supreme Court review of the Second Circuit’s decision affirming Judge Kaplan’s decision in the RICO case. One point of immediate interest: until now, Donizger and the LAPs have been separately represented. Now, Donziger’s lawyer, Deepak Gupta, represents one of the LAPs, too, and……