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Case of the Day: Owen v. Sports Gymnastics Federation of Russia
The case of the day is Owen v. Sports Gymnastics Federation of Russia (D. Me. 2012). The plaintiff, Charles Owen, is acting pro se. I wish him luck—I don’t think anyone should try to pull off a transnational litigation without a good lawyer! The complaint alleges that Owen is the “webmaster” for several “official websites”……
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Chevron Seeks Summary Judgment
Chevron has filed a motion for partial summary judgment in the RICO case against the Lago Agrio plaintiffs and their lawyers. In a nutshell, the claim in the case was that the defendants took part in the supposed corruption in Ecuador that led to Ecuador’s judgment against Chevron. Those of the defendants who appeared in……
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Keep It Classy, Chevron
I am not a partisan in the Chevron/Ecuador case, and having read a lot of the papers filed in the various proceedings, I can say that I admire the work the lawyers on both sides of the cases (I should really say the three sides of the cases, as Ecuador itself is a party to……
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Case of the Day: Advanced Aerofoil Technologies v. Todaro
The case of the day is Advanced Aerofoil Technologies AG v. Todaro (S.D.N.Y. 2011). The decision doesn’t go over the facts of the case; the complaint was for trade secret misappropriation. Some of the defendants were Americans, others were German or Swiss. The plaintiff sought leave to serve the European defendants by courier (presumably, by……
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Liberty Media v. Sheng Gan Revisited: Service On The Web?
Julian Ku recently reported on a High Court decision permitting service of process by Facebook. Today’s case of the day, Liberty Media Holdings, LLC v. Sheng Gan (D. Colo. 2012), a follow-up to our case of the day from January 30, 2012, is a slightly more sophisticated variation on the same theme. In the earlier……