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Questions for Chevron
Today Letters Blogatory welcomes back Doug Cassel, Professor of Law at Notre Dame and an advocate for Chevron here on Letters Blogatory and elsewhere, including at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Doug gives us his view and, I presume, Chevron’s view) of the evidence that corroborates the Guerra Declaration. I offered an equal guest-posting……
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Lago Agrio: Did The Plaintiffs Buy the Judgment?
In responding to the Declaration of former Ecuadorian Judge Alberto Guerra—who claims to have taken thousands of dollars from the plaintiffs to fix the outcome in the Lago Agrio litigation against Chevron—Ted Folkman is judicious. While reporting Guerra’s allegations and crediting Chevron’s lawyers for ferreting them out, Ted’s first reaction is that “I don’t trust……
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Case of the Day: In re Cathode Ray Tube Antitrust Litigation
The case of the day is In re Cathode Ray Tube Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal. 2013). The main multi-district litigation involves antitrust claims against cathode ray tube manufacturers. Sharp Corp., an electronics manufacturer, was a plaintiff in a similar litigation in Korea against Korean CRT manufacturers. Sharp sought leave under 28 USC § 1782 to……
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Case of the Day: Kita v. Superior Court
The case of the day is Kita v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County (Cal. Ct. App. 2013). Takahito and Kanako Kita were Japanese nationals who were married in Japan in 2003. They had two children, a son and a daughter, both born in Japan. In 2008, Takahito’s employer transferred him to its California office.……
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BREAKING: Argentine Appellate Court Upholds Chevron Asset Freeze In the Lago Agrio Case
According to Enrique Bruchou, a lawyer for the Lago Agrio plaintiffs quoted by Reuters, an Argentine appellate court has upheld a lower court’s order freezing the assets of Chevron affiliates in Argentina. As I reported in November, a judge in Buenos Aires, acting under the Inter-American Convention on Execution of Preventive Measures, had issued an……