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Lago Agrio: The Wheels of Government Turn Slowly
Here is one for the cautionary tale files. On Sept. 18, I published a post noting that Chevron had not filed an opposition to the renewal of Ecuador’s trade preferences and wondering why that might be. I hedged my bets by noting that “it’s possible [ellipsis] that Chevron has submitted a petition that simply hasn’t……
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Case of the Day: H-D Michigan v. Hellenic Duty Free Shops
The case of the day is H-D Michigan v. Hellenic Duty Free Shops (7th Cir. 2012). We first saw this trademark licensing dispute on September 27, 2011, when the question was whether the judge could extend a temporary restraining order past the ordinarily permitted time in order to allow the plaintiff, H-D Michigan LLC, a……
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Belfast Project: Dolours Price Contradicts Ed Moloney?
An anonymous reader has brought to my attention a new article from The Telegraph. The article asserts that Dolours Price has recently given a series of interviews in which she said that she had told the Belfast Project interviewer (Anthony McIntyre, I think) that Gerry Adams, now the president of Sinn Féin, was her commanding……
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Breaking: Belfast Project Stay Denied
The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has denied the motion of Anthony McIntyre and Ed Moloney to stay the issuance of the mandate. Moloney & McIntyre’s motion followed their defeat in an appeal aimed at reversing the District Court’s order requiring Boston College to turn over some of the Belfast Project interview materials……
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Case of the Day: Chanel, Inc. v. Acheterchanel.com
The case of the day is Chanel, Inc. v. Acheterchanel.com (S.D. Fla. 2012). Chanel, the well-known perfumer, sued Acheterchanel.com and unnamed defendants for tradmark infringement, false designation of origin, cyber-squatting, and unfair competition on account of knock-offs allegedly sold on various websites. Chanel obtained the WHOIS domain registration data for each of the websites at……