Ted Folkman
Ted Folkman
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  • Lago Agrio: Someone’s Going To Have Egg On His Face

    The fracas between MCSquared and Sharon Stone has taken a decidedly odd turn.

  • Lago Agrio: The Dissent

    Readers, I erroneously reported that one of the three arbitrators, Dr. Horacio A. Grigera Naón, had dissented without an opinion. In fact, he did write a brief note of dissent, which I simply hadn’t seen. I’m not going to review it in depth: in the main, the disagreement concerns how to interpret the earlier Ecuadoran……

  • Lago Agrio: Ecuador Wins A Round In The Investment Treaty Arbitration

    Ecuador had a win yesterday in its investment treaty arbitration with Chevron. The tribunal issued its decision on track 1B of the case.

  • Case of the Day: NYKCool v. Pacific International Services

    The case of the day is NYKCool A.B. v. Pacific International Services, Inc. (S.D.N.Y. 2015). NYKCool had a arbitration award for $8.7 million against Pacific Fruit Inc. and Kelso Enterprises. More than $6 million of the award was unsatisfied. It brought an action to pierce the corporate veil against Álvaro Fernando Noboa Pontón, the companies’……

  • Letters Blogatory Opposes Abolition of the Leap Second

    Readers, I am going to subject you today to an editorial on a topic that periodically gets me worked up even though it has nothing to do with private international law: the proposed abolition of the leap second. I’m sorry to say that the United States is the main proponent of the change. Here is……