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Lago Agrio: A First Look At The Ontario Decision In Yaiguaje
As I reported yesterday, the Superior Court in Ontario has stayed the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ case for recognition and enforcement of their Ecuadoran judgment against Chevron and one of its Canadian indirect subsidiaries. In today’s post, I give a non-technical, “big picture” reading of the decision, leaving the technical discussion to the Canadian lawyers who……
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BREAKING: Ontario Judge Stays Ecuadoran Plaintiffs’ Recognition and Enforcement Action Against Chevron
Update: Here is the decision. I’ll have more tomorrow morning! This just in from Jeff Gray of the Globe and Mail: Ontario judge stays move by plaintiffs to collect on Ecuadorean $19B pollution judgment against Chevron. #Chevron #law Story coming soon. — Jeff Gray (@jeffreybgray) May 1, 2013 More to come as soon as it’s……
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Case of the Day: Jahanbin v. Rafieishad
The case of the day is Jahanbin v. Rafieishad (Ga. 2013). Jahanbin and Rafieishad, both Iranian nationals (Jahanbin also was a US national), married in Georgia in 2007. In 2011, Rafieishad began divorce proceedings against her husband, who then was in Iran, in the Fulton County Superior Court. After encountering difficulties in serving process, Rafieishad……
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An Update on COCA
Where do things stand with the ratification of the Hague Choice Of Court Agreements Convention? I attended a talk on Friday that outlined where we are and how we got here. I am not going to give the details of the talk or even identify the speakers, but I thought it would be useful to……