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BREAKING: Argentine Appellate Court Upholds Chevron Asset Freeze In the Lago Agrio Case
According to Enrique Bruchou, a lawyer for the Lago Agrio plaintiffs quoted by Reuters, an Argentine appellate court has upheld a lower court’s order freezing the assets of Chevron affiliates in Argentina. As I reported in November, a judge in Buenos Aires, acting under the Inter-American Convention on Execution of Preventive Measures, had issued an……
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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: New Hampshire Insurance Co. v. Magellan Reinsurance Co.
The case of the day is New Hampshire Insurance Co. v. Magellan Reinsurance Co. (Tex. Ct. App. 2013). NHIC filed a winding-up petition against Magellan in the courts of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The Supreme Court (the court of first instance) ruled in NHIC’s favor, but on appeal the Court of Appeal reversed, holding……
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Case of the Day: Commissions Import Export S.A. v. Republic of the Congo
The case of the day is Commissions Import Export SA v. Republic of the Congo (D.D.C. 2013). The case deals with local statutes of limitations applicable to recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, a topic we saw in the discussion of Yugraneft Corp. v. Rexx Management Corp., [2010] 1 S.C.R. 649 (Can.), the case……
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Case of the Day: Cagan v. Gadman
The case of the day is Cagan v. Gadman (E.D.N.Y. 2012). Martin Cagan sued Broney Gadman and others for fraud and civil conspiracy, and he also sought recognition and enforcement of a judgment of an English court against Gadman for more than £ 282,000. The facts of the case are not really clear from the……