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MaestroMastro: Chevron’s Legal Team Hits A Home RunEarlier today, Chevron filed a Declaration by Alberto Guerra Bastidas, an Ecuadoran judge, that tells a seriously juicy story of judicial corruption in Ecuador. By his own admission, Judge Guerra allowed the claim against Chevron to go forward in 2003 and 2004 because of “public pressure brought to bear by the representatives of the Plaintiffs.”……
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Case of the Day: Freedom Watch v. OPEC
The case of the day is Freedom Watch v. OPEC (D.D.C. 2013). Freedom Watch, a right-wing organization that accuses the “Obama-Clinton regime” of “using the economic crisis as an excuse to turn our nation into a socialist Euro-style welfare state,” sued OPEC on antitrust theories. I am going to go out on a limb here……
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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……