Author: Ted Folkman

  • Case of the Day: CE International Resources Holdings v. S.A. Minerals

    The case of the day is CE International Resources Holdings, LLC v. S.A. Minerals LP (S.D.N.Y. 2013). CEIR commenced an arbitration against S.A. Minerals and Tantalum Technology in 2012, alleging a breach of contracts for the purchase and sale of synthetic concentrates. After learning that S.A. Minerals had been dissolved, CEIR amended its claim to……

  • Lago Agrio: Judge Kaplan Allows Chevron’s Microsoft Subpoena

    I have an interesting Lago Agrio decision for you today, Chevron Corp. v. Donziger (N.D.N.Y. 2013). The Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ PR people called to my attention. After I read it, I wondered whether they had read my Belfast Project coverage, and in particular my discussion of Wigmore’s approach to claims of a First Amendment privilege……

  • Case of the Day: In re Pott

    The case of the day is In re Application of Pott (S.D. Fla. 2013). It’s a § 1782 application related to the application we considered back in May. In the earlier case, the court granted Alfredo Carlos Pott’s application for judicial assistance. No such luck this time. I’m not going to re-hash the prior post.……

  • Recent Comments Gone Missing

    Readers, comments to posts dated after May 22, 2013, have vanished into the ether. If yours is one of them, my apologies! I’m not sure what happened. I am not going to try to restore from my backups in order to avoid making matters worse somehow.

  • Case of the Day: SerVaas Inc. v. Republic of Iraq

    The case of the day is SerVaas Inc. v. Republic of Iraq (S.D.N.Y. 2013). The underlying case was for recognition and enforcement of a judgment of the Paris Commercial Court. We covered the decision on the merits in February 2012. In short, SerVass won. It then sought to take post-judgment discovery. In today’s decision, SerVass……