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Conundrum of the Day: The Indictment of Judge Shelley Joseph
Here in Boston, a federal grand jury has just indicted Judge Shelley Joseph, a judge in the Newton District Court, for conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice, and obstruction of a federal proceeding. The claim is that during an arraignment in her courtroom for Jose Medina-Perez, who was charged with being a fugitive from……
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Case of the Day: Santos v. LATAM Airlines
The case of the day is Santos v. LATAM Airlines Group S.A. (SDNY 2019). Yolanda Delia Arias Santos, an Ecuadoran, was flying from New York to Guyaquil, Ecuador on LATAM, a Chilean airline. she claimed that on the flight, a flight attendant spilled boiling tea on her. She sued in New York. LATAM moved to……
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Lago Agrio: Dutch Supreme Court Affirms Decision In BIT Arbitration
The Hoge Raad (the Dutch Supreme Court) has affirmed a lower court’s decision refusing to annul the interim awards in favor of Chevron in its investment treaty arbitration against Ecuador arising out of the Lago Agrio case. I covered one of the interim awards in February 2012, if you can believe that, as well as……
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Looming Problem of the Day: In re Application of del Valle Ruiz
The Second Circuit heard oral argument on March 25 in In re Application of Antonio del Valle Ruiz. Del Valle Ruiz was an investor in Banco Popular Español who lost his investment when the EU and the Spanish government put the bank into receivership and sold it for € 1 to Banco Santander. Del Vale……
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Ecuador Withdraws Asylum, Assange Arrested
Officers of the Metropolitan Police were invited into the Ecuadoran embassy in London yesterday to arrest Julian Assange. I haven’t written much about Mr. Assange here, though I’ve made it clear for a long time that I have little sympathy for him. In some way Assange is like Trump. They both are epic narcissists and……