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Case of the Day: Crystallex International v. Petróleos de Venezuela
The case of the day is Crystallex International Corp. v. Petróleos de Venezuela (D. Del. 2016). Crystallex was a Canadian corporation that had brought an ICSID arbitration against Venezuela, relating primarily to Venezuela’s denial of a permit to allow Crystallex to mine gold deposits in the Las Cristinas area and to the decision of a……
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Case of the Day: de Fontbrune v. Wofsy
Update: I don’t often do this, but I forgot that I wrote about this case in 2014! I suppose that’s what happens when you reach 1,550 posts. The case of the day is de Fontbrune v. Wofsy (9th Cir. 2016). From 1932 to 1970, Christian Zervos took thousands of photographs of Picasso’s art, which Cahiers……
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Case of the Day: Judicial Authority of Ohio v. Mann
The case of the day is Judicial Authority of Ohio v. Mann (Jerusalem Magistrate Court 2016). I don’t have the text of the opinion, unfortunately, but I got a pointer to the case from Eric Sherby’s Globalit blog. The case involved a letter of request under the Hague Evidence Convention seeking discovery in aid of……
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Congress Overrides The JASTA Veto
By lopsided votes, Congress overrode the President’s veto of JASTA, the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. The vote in the Senate was 97 to 1, and in the House of Representatives the vote was 348 to 77. What’s done is done, but it just seems very odd to me for the country with the……
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Lago Agrio: Donziger Seeks Rehearing En Banc
Steven Donziger has petitioned the Second Circuit to rehear his appeal of Judge Kaplan’s judgment in the RICO case en banc. It’s a Deepak Gupta brief, so it’s well-done and a good read. Will it be successful? Here are a few thoughts.