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Case of the Day: LT Game International v. DEQ Systems
The case of the day is LT Game International Ltd. v. DEQ Systems Corp. (D.N.J. 2013). The claim was for patent infringement. DEQ was in Quebec. LT served process by mail, and DEQ moved to quash the service. The court granted the motion, but not for the reasons you might fear. I’ve previously opined that……
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Lago Agrio: More on the Corroboration of Judge Guerra’s Claims
I had an interesting discussion on Friday with Roger Parloff on Twitter regarding the records that, Chevron says, corroborate Judge Guerra’s account of his participation in a bribery scheme. I said to Roger that I thought there might be a hearsay problem with the records, and he said (I think he was in court for……
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Case of the Day: Interbrew v. Molson Coors
The case of the day is Interbrew Central European Holding BV v. Molson Coors Brewing Co. (D. Colo. 2013). The case is an entirely routine § 1782 application; the reason I call attention to it is that the judge, or rather the magistrate judge (Mix, M.J.), mused on the question whether she had authority to……
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Case of the Day: In re Application of Lee-Shim
The case of the day is In re Application of Lee-Shim (N.D. Cal. 2013). Jean-Michael Lee-Shim was implicated in a criminal bribery investigation in Mauritius and the United Kingdom. In the investigation, emails that came from Lee-Shim’s personal email account (he used Yahoo as his service provider) were relevant. Lee-Shim asserted than an unauthorized person……
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Lago Agrio: Judge Guerra’s Testimony
Today Chevron filed the witness statement of Judge Alberto Guerra Bastidas, a star witness if not the star witness of Chevron’s case. Judge Guerra retells the story we have already seen of the ghostwriting, the bribes, and so forth. Guerra retells the story of his ghostwriting relationship with Judge Zambrano, Donziger’s involvement, the payments from……