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Lago Agrio: Judge Kaplan Denies Patton Boggs’s Motion to Strike the Bogart Declaration
Back in April I reported on a declaration by Christopher Bogart, the CEO of the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ former litigation funder, Burford Capital. As I wrote in a later post, the declaration “basically threw Patton Boggs under the bus by claiming that the law firm had persuaded Burford to invest in the litigation by defending……
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Case of the Day: South Carolina v. Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
The case of the day is South Carolina v. Hitachi Displays, Ltd. (D.S.C. 2013). South Carolina sued Epson Imaging Devices Corp., a Japanese company, for conspiring to fix prices on thin film transistor-liquid crystal display panels. The case had been stayed pending resolution of a petition for certiorari in the Supreme Court. The state asked……
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Event Announcement: Ontario Bar Association Event on International Commercial Arbitration
Readers in Toronto, check out the Ontario Bar Association’s upcoming event,
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Case of the Day: Boeing Co. v. KB Yuzhnoye
The case of the day is Boeing Co. v. KB Yuzhnoye (C.D. Cal. 2013). Boeing Co. and the Boeing Commercial Space Co. claimed that BCSC was part of a joint venture called Sea Launch. Yuzhnoye, an instrumentality of Ukraine, was one of the other joint venturers. The joint venture agreement provided that if any party……
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Lago Agrio: Judge Kaplan Denies Key Parts of Chevron’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment
Trial in Chevron’s RICO claim against Steven Donziger and the Lago Agrio plaintiffs is fast approaching. Chevron, for the third time, has sought a pre-trial decision from Judge Kaplan on the merits of its claim that there is no dispute but that the Cabrera report was part of a scheme by the defendants to commit……