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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…
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Case of the Day: Richardson v. Attorney General of the BVI
The case of the day is Richardson v. Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands (D.V.I. 2013). Meaghan and Cyril Richardson were passengers on a powerboat that was stopped by a BVI customs official, who claimed that they were in BVI waters (the Richardsons claimed they were in US waters) and ordered them to leave…
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Deposing Third Party Witnesses in Germany: The Same, but Different
Peter Bert follows up on his post from last week about the practice under the Hague Evidence Convention in Germany. For American lawyers, it’s obviously important to understand what will happen once your letter of request makes its way to Germany. But it’s also important to bear in mind how the US court will treat…