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Lago Agrio: Chevron Seeks Discovery From MCSquared
Update: I’ve made a minor correction in light of Mark Kantor’s helpful comment, printed below. Remember MCSquared, the Republic of Ecuador’s US PR firm, which hired “ethically diverse” actors to protest at a Chevron meeting, and which initially failed to register as Ecuador’s agent under the Foreign Agent Registration Act. The MCSquared story was good……
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Case of the Day: McEachern v. Inter-Country Adoption Board of the Philippines
The case of the day is McEachern v. Inter-Country Adoption Board of the Philippines (D. Mass. 2014). In 2012, Geraldine McEachern traveled to the Philippines to adopt two half-sisters, one ten years old and the other sixteen. The older girl was reluctant to travel to the US to be adopted, but the younger was eager.……
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The Israeli “Jewish Nation State” Bill: Is The Controversy Justified?
I want to veer off-topic to discuss the recent proposal in Israel to declare the state to be the nation-state of the Jewish people. The “Jewish Nation State” proposal has gotten a lot of attention from lawyers and others. It may be a good idea and it may be a bad idea (Israeli citizens are……
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Sleaziest PR of the Week: Episode Two
Readers, a while ago I took the LAPs to task for what I thought was an unwarranted attack on the NOW Legal Defense Fund. This time, it is Chevron’s turn. Here is a recent tweet from James Craig, one of Chevron’s communications people: https://twitter.com/jbcraig/status/539477187733094400 The link is to a blog post by Roberto Aguilar, in……
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Lago Agrio: Ecuador’s Latest Brief In The BIT Arbitration
A few weeks ago, Ecuador filed its Track 2 Supplemental Counter-Memorial in the BIT arbitration against Chevron. The brief covers some interesting ground. I want to draw attention to two points in particular.