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Case of the Day: Lantheus Medical Imaging v. Atomic Energy of Canada
We return today to Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. v. Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., a case involving a US letter rogatory in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Here is my brief summary of the underlying facts from my first post on the case: In the underlying case, Lantheus Med. Imaging, Inc. v. Zurich Am.……
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Case of the Day: Patton Boggs v. Chevron
In today’s case of the day, Patton Boggs LLP v. Chevron Corp. (D.C. Cir. 2012), the D.C. Circuit finally drove a stake through the heart of one of the satellite cases in the Lago Agrio litigation. Patton Boggs had sued Chevron and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher for a declaration that it was not conflicted out……
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Case of the Day: Starski v. Kirzhnev
Today’s case of the day, Starski v. Kirzhnev (1st Cir. 2012), is the appellate decision on one of my favorite cases of the day—I wrote about the District Court decision in my post of March 21, 2011. Here was my description of the facts: Vietnam owed a debt to Russia. Starski had connections in the……
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A Brief Comment on the Julian Assange Diplomatic Asylum Request
The commentary on Julian Assange’s legal situation now that he has sought asylum at the Ecuadoran embassy in London has begun to roll in from the public international law blogs. I am basically unsympathetic to Mr. Assange, but in light of Letters Blogatory’s coverage of the Ecuadoran legal system in the context of the Lago……
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Update on the Summary Judgment Motions in the Lago Agrio RICO Case
Back in March, I noted that Chevron had moved for partial summary judgment in the RICO case it had filed in New York against Donziger, Naranjo and others. In its motion, Chevron contended that the RICO defendants had set up the Ecuadoran judgment as claim- and issue-preclusive on the question whether the Ecuadoran proceedings were……