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Case of the day: Isaac Industries v. Petroquímica de Venezuela
The case of the day is Isaac Industries, Inc. v. Petroquímica de Venezuela, SA (11th Cir. 2025). Isaac, a Florida wholesale chemical distributor, had a contract with Bariven, a Venezuelan oil and chemical company “associated with or owned by” the state, to sell 2-ethylhexanol for nearly $3,000 per metric ton. Bariven ordered almost 6,000 metric……
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Case of the day: In re Genial Institucional
The case of the day is In re Genial Institucional Corretora de Cambio (S.D.N.Y. 2025). Genial sued BP Securities and others in Brazil, seeking a declaration that it was in a de facto partnership with BP, dissolution of the partnership, and its share of the assets. It brought an application for discovery under Section 1782……
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Elephant habeas and birthright citizenship
The Colorado Supreme Court has unanimously rejected an appeal by the Nonhuman Rights Project seeking to reverse a lower court’s decision holding that people could not seek writs of habeas corpus on behalf of elephants. The key question was whether an elephant is a “person,” and the court said that of course an elephant is……
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The first hostages come home
Despite everything, yesterday was a happy day. Three Israeli hostages, Emily Damari, Doron Steinbrecher, and Romi Gonen, were released alive 471 days after they were kidnapped and have been reunited with their families. Is the ceasefire a good deal or not a good deal? I don’t know, but I have my doubts. On the one……
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Donziger and Post-Truth Politics
We live in a “post-truth” age, and it’s not just a problem on the right. I was struck by an Amnesty International article by Elizabeth Haight that calls on President Biden to pardon Steven Donziger, who as longtime readers know is the American lawyer who led a lawsuit in Ecuador seeking and obtaining a judgment……