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What Happens to the Belfast Project Case After Dolours Price’s Death?
Update: One other point I want to make. I think the tapes will be released to the British authorities, but will they be made public? I think it is necessary to M&M’s case on the other tapes that the Price tapes must be made public. The policy justification for the oral history privilege they’ve asserted……
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BREAKING: Dolours Price, Central Figure in Belfast Project Case, Has Died
Dolours Price, the woman at the heart of the Belfast Project case, has died, according to news reports. Check back in with Letters Blogatory for analysis of what this will mean for the case. Update: I’ll be discussing this new development tomorrow on RTÉ Radio’s Morning Ireland program, which airs from 7 to 9 a.m.……
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Lago Agrio: Huaorani Intervention Denied
Judge Kaplan has denied the motion of the Huaorani for leave to intervene in Chevron’s RICO action. The Huaorani are a group of Lago Agrio plaintiffs who claim that Donziger and his team had wrongfully represented to the Ecuadoran court that they represented the interests of all Lago Agrio plaintiffs, when in fact they had……
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Lago Agrio: The New Erion Report
The Lago Agrio plaintiffs have published a new report by Graham Erion, the Canadian lawyer who has previously taken Chevron to task over the sufficiency of its disclosures to investors regarding the Ecuador litigation. The new report is a revised and expanded verison of the old. Now there are important new angles for Erion to……
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Case of the Day: Kerajaan Republik Demokratik Rakyat Laos v. Hongsa Lingitwe Co.
I have an update on the Thai-Lao Lignite case today. Here is my description of the case from a prior post: Lignite is a low-quality coal used for generating electricity. The Hongsa region of Laos, near the Thai border, has it, and in the early 1990s, Thailand needed to import electricity. And so a joint……