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Case of the Day: Outokumpu Stainless USA v. Converteam
The case of the day is Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC v. Converteam SAS (11th Cir. 2018). Outokumpu operated a steel plant in Alabama. It contracted with Fives for the purchase of three cold rolling mills for use in the plant. The contract had an agreement to arbitrate calling for arbitration in Germany under the ICC……
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Article of the Day: Alessandro Spinillo on the Madrid High Court of Justice and the Setting Aside of Arbitral Awards
Long-time Letters Blogatory commenter Alessandro Spinillo, an Argentine lawyer, has a new post at the Kluwer Arbitration Blog on The Madrid High Court of Justice and the Setting Aside of Arbitral Awards. The most interesting point in the post is that the Madrid High Court of Justice annuls awards more than 26% of the time.……
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Lago Agrio: The Mystery Of Amazonia
Amazonia Recovery Ltd. was a Gibraltar company set up to hold the proceeds of the Lago Agrio judgment, or maybe the judgment itself. As I’ve reported previously, Chevron obtained a default judgment against the firm in Gibraltar, and in the New York RICO case, the final judgment required Steven Donziger, the LAPs’ American lawyer, to……
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Blog of the Day: the International Litigation Blog
I’m not sure why I didn’t know of it sooner, but I recently discovered the International Litigation Blog, and I want to recommend it to readers. It’s edited by Quentin Declève, a Brussels lawyer in private practice. Quentin has recently recruited a group of contributors who will be writing regularly from both sides of the……
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Lago Agrio: The Remedy
This is the third post about the new arbitral award in the Chevron/Ecuador case. The first post addressed the tribunal’s finding that the Lago Agrio judgment was ghostwritten. The second addressed the issue of estoppel as it related to the question whether Chevron had an investment in Ecuador so as to implicate the bilateral investment……