Comments on: “Facts are Created” https://lettersblogatory.com/2018/08/21/facts-are-created/ The Blog of International Judicial Assistance Fri, 12 May 2023 00:19:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: How To Report on the Trump Verdict | Letters Blogatory https://lettersblogatory.com/2018/08/21/facts-are-created/#comment-5400 Fri, 12 May 2023 00:19:10 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=27197#comment-5400 […] caveats, I think we ought to say that Trump abused Carroll. Why? Because “facts are created.” Here is what I wrote about this point in the Chevron/Ecuador case, when Donziger was caught […]

]]> By: Lago Agrio: Government Files Opposition to Steven Donziger’s Cert Petition – Letters Blogatory https://lettersblogatory.com/2018/08/21/facts-are-created/#comment-3678 Wed, 21 Dec 2022 01:05:16 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=27197#comment-3678 […] disbarment had stemmed from his conviction, but in fact, the disbarment stemmed from the facts (or facts′) of the corrupt proceedings in […]

]]> By: Lago Agrio: District of Columbia Disbars Donziger - Folkman LLC https://lettersblogatory.com/2018/08/21/facts-are-created/#comment-3151 Sun, 31 Jul 2022 21:24:10 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=27197#comment-3151 […] of facts (“there are no facts in the world except facts that people create”). I think he was saying that it’s the lawyer’s job to give a court a good reason to agree that the facts are […]

]]> By: The Never-Ending Story: Donziger Seeks To Avoid Disbarment In DC - Folkman LLC https://lettersblogatory.com/2018/08/21/facts-are-created/#comment-3150 Mon, 09 May 2022 10:35:07 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=27197#comment-3150 […] (You can read my basic approach to this issue in one of my favorite Letters Blogatory posts, “Facts Are Created“). He claims he was denied an opportunity to be heard, that the DC court should not accept […]

]]> By: Lago Agrio: Donziger Disbarred | Letters Blogatory https://lettersblogatory.com/2018/08/21/facts-are-created/#comment-3149 Fri, 14 Aug 2020 12:23:15 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=27197#comment-3149 […] that Judge Kaplan found had preclusive effect and could not be relitigated. And on those facts (or facts′), which included bribery of a judge and falsification of an expert report, disbarment was clearly […]

]]> By: Lago Agrio: Donziger Referee Recommends Reinstatement | Letters Blogatory https://lettersblogatory.com/2018/08/21/facts-are-created/#comment-3148 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:02:07 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=27197#comment-3148 […] key to my basic approach is in a post from 2018 called “Facts are Created.” The idea is that there are facts that are true about the world, and there are facts that […]

]]> By: Lago Agrio: Donziger Appeals | Letters Blogatory https://lettersblogatory.com/2018/08/21/facts-are-created/#comment-3147 Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:41:02 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=27197#comment-3147 […] some of them, as I have argued, are less clear). But they are the facts for purposes of the law. Here is how I put it earlier in my post on Donziger’s “facts are created” […]

]]> By: Lago Agrio: New York Appellate Court Reverses Referee’s Decision on Collateral Estoppel | Letters Blogatory https://lettersblogatory.com/2018/08/21/facts-are-created/#comment-3146 Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:17:00 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=27197#comment-3146 […] the referee. Thus the facts that Judge Kaplan found are the facts, or as I called them in a August 2018 post, the “facts′.” They may or may not be true, but they have been finally determined by […]

]]> By: Lago Agrio: Steven Donziger Petitions the IACHR | Letters Blogatory https://lettersblogatory.com/2018/08/21/facts-are-created/#comment-3145 Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:02:07 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=27197#comment-3145 […] supposedly-independent-but-in-fact-not-independent-at-all Cabrera report). This is the reason why I have suggested that the New York bar authorities were right to act in the disciplinary proceeding against Donziger […]

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