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Lago Agrio: Second Chance for Steven Donziger
Steven Donziger has been given a second chance to save his law license. John R. Horan, the referee who will be conducting the next hearing in the New York bar’s disciplinary case against Steven Donziger has decided that Donziger should be allowed to challenge the factual basis on which Judge Kaplan found that he had……
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Case of the Day: Amazon v. Glenn
The case of the day is Amazon, Inc. v. Glenn (W.D. Wash. 2018). It’s an odd case. Amazon won an arbitration award against Thomas Glenn, who resided in the Dominican Republic. It sought to confirm the award. The clerk “mailed the petition to Respondent’s address in the Dominican Republic, in accordance with the Hague Convention……
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DNC v. Wikileaks: Russia Asserts Immunity
In its lawsuit against Wikileaks, Russia, and others, the Democratic National Committee has effected service on Russia under 28 U.S.C. § 1608(a)(4), slowest and most solemn method of service in foreign sovereign cases, and the only one that is more or less guaranteed to work. By diplomatic note, Russia returned the documents that the United……
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Case of the Day: Halvorssen v. Simpson
The case of the day is Halvorssen v.Simpson (E.D.N.Y. 2018). Thor Halvorssen, a human rights advocate, claimed that after he criticized Derwick Associates, a Venezuelan power company, for corruption, Derwick hired Fusion GPS, the intelligence firm made famous for its connection with the Steele Dossier, to do a number on him. The claim was brought……
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Letters Blogatory Remembers
Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping! With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary; Leave the sick hearts that honor could not move,……