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Belfast Project: Chris Bray Says “I Told You So!”
Longtime contributor Chris Bray comments on the implications of the collapse of the Downey trial for the Belfast Project.
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Case of the Day: In re Application of Pinchuk
The case of the day is In re Application of Pinchuk (S.D. Fla. 2013). Victor Mikhaylovich Pinchuk was the claimant in an LCIA arbitration against Igor Valeryevich Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Borisovich Bogolyubov. The three had been joint venturers in the ferroalloy business. Pinchuk sought to take discovery under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 from several third……
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Belfast Project: First Circuit Denies Government’s Petition for Panel Rehearing
The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has denied the government’s petition for a panel rehearing in the Belfast Project case. As I noted in my post on the petition, the government was not seeking to change the outcome of the case. Rather, it objected to the panel’s reasoning to the extent the panel……
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Belfast Project: Government Petitions For Panel Rehearing
The government has filed a petition seeking a rehearing before the panel of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit that decided the most recent Belfast Project appeal. The government is not asking the panel to modify the actual result of the case, i.e., it is not asking that more of the interviews be……
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Case of the Day: CE International Resources Holdings v. S.A. Minerals
The case of the day is CE International Resources Holdings, LLC v. S.A. Minerals LP (S.D.N.Y. 2013). CEIR commenced an arbitration against S.A. Minerals and Tantalum Technology in 2012, alleging a breach of contracts for the purchase and sale of synthetic concentrates. After learning that S.A. Minerals had been dissolved, CEIR amended its claim to……