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  • Lago Agrio: LAPs Abandon Recognition and Enforcement Effort in Brazil

    Lago Agrio: LAPs Abandon Recognition and Enforcement Effort in Brazil

    The group representing the Lago Agrio plaintiffs announced last week that they have abandoned their efforts to have the Lago Agrio judgment recognized and enforced in Brazil. The announcement came on the same day the case was to be heard in the Brazilian court. According to the LAPs, Chevron had submitted documents to the court……

    September 25, 2017
  • Warning: Construction Zone!

    Readers, you no doubt have noticed that Letters Blogatory looks different today. I like the way it looked before, but the “theme” I was using is several years old, and for various reasons that won’t be visible to you, it made sense for me to switch to a more modern theme. I’m still fiddling with……

    September 25, 2017
  • Case of the Day: Handshoe v. Perret

    The case of the day is Handshoe v. Perret (S.D. Miss. 2017). The case is related to Trout Point Lodge Ltd. v. Handshoe, 729 F.3d 481 (5th Cir. 2013), the first appellate decision on the SPEECH Act. We haven’t seen the Act in a while, so just as a reminder, the purpose of the Act……

    September 22, 2017
  • Lago Agrio: SDNY Judges Submit Ethics Complaint Against Donziger

    Lago Agrio: SDNY Judges Submit Ethics Complaint Against Donziger

    It’s been a while since I’ve written about the Lago Agrio case. Not much is going at the moment. I was aware, via press releases, of a dispute about whether Judge Kaplan should order Steven Donziger to pay Chevron’s legal fees, but I hadn’t read any of the motion papers until I came across a……

    September 21, 2017
  • Letters Blogatory is Now Available on Facebook

    Readers, as many of you know, there are lots of ways to have Letters Blogatory delivered to you. The main one, of course, is just to visit the website. But I also have an RSS feed, and email subscription service, and links to nearly all posts on LinkIn and Twitter. As of now, I’m also……

    September 20, 2017
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