Author: Ted Folkman

  • Case of the Day: In re Chevron Corp.

    Our case of the day, In re Chevron Corp. (3d Cir. 2011), is the Third Circuit’s contribution to the dozens of Lago Agrio-related judicial assistance proceedings around the country. I won’t rehash the background to the Lago Agrio case again, except to say that the Third Circuit evidentally shares my sense of the irony involved……

  • Event Announcement

    From the Blogatory shameless self-promotion desk… if you’re in Boston on February 10, please stop by the Boston Bar Association at 12:30. My colleague David Evans and I are giving a talk on choice of law in international IP arbitration, based on the chapter we’ve written for a forthcoming book on all aspects of international……

  • From the Blogatory Lago Agrio Desk

    The Chevron Lago Agrio case has spawned a wave of judicial assistance applications here in the United States (some of which we’ve covered here and here). So while the latest development is not strictly relevant to Letters Blogatory’s usual scope of coverage, I thought readers would appreciate a link to Chevron’s massive complaint against the……

  • Case of the Day: In re Search of Premises

    In the case of the day, In re Search of Premises Located at at 840 140th Ave. NE, Bellevue, Wash. (9th Cir. 2011), the Russian government sought judicial assistance in aid of its criminal investigation of Arkady Gontmakher for illegal crabbing. The United States and Russia are parties to a mutual legal assistance treaty, which requires the……

  • Case of the Day: AO Technabexport v. Globe Nuclear Servs. & Gas Supply

    In the case of the day, AO Techsnabexport v. Globe Nuclear Servs. & Gas Supply, Ltd., No. 09-2064 (4th Cir. Dec. 15, 2010), the Fourth Circuit affirmed a district court’s decision confirming an international arbitral award between a U.S. firm and a Russian firm buying and selling uranium, over objections that the tribunal had violated its……