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Letters Blogatory Remembers 9/11
Let’s pause to remember the men and women who died in the 9/11 attacks, fifteen years ago today.
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Lago Agrio: Summary Judgment Hearing In Canada (With a Reader Poll!)
Amazon Watch issued a press release yesterday that said that we were “less than a week before a trial is scheduled to begin in Toronto to seize Chevron’s assets in Canada to force the company to comply with its liability to remediate what many call the ‘Amazon Chernobyl’ in Ecuador.” Exciting! Unfortunately, though, not quite……
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Vivian Curran on FSIA Immunity and Genocide In The Restatement (Fourth)
I bring you an excerpt from Professor Vivian Curran’s forthcoming paper, Harmonizing Multinational Parent Company Liability for Foreign Subsidiary Human Rights Violations, 17 Chicago J. Int’l L. (2017). The excerpt has to do primarily with the evolving exception to FSIA immunity in cases of expropriation in connection with genocide. I’ve covered aspects of some of……
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Kuwait Airways Case: Results of FOIA Request
A coda to the Kuwait Airways case. This, recall, is the case of the airline that refused to sell a ticket to a passenger traveling on an Israeli passport, citing the Kuwaiti law that forbade doing business with Israelis. After some hemming and hawing, the Department of Transportation made it clear to the airline that……
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Lago Agrio: Tribunal Says US Decision Has No Preclusive Effect
Chevron won a victory when the tribunal hearing its investment treaty claim against Ecuador granted its application to add the Second Circuit’s recent decision to the record in the arbitration. But the tribunal’s order is, in an important sense, a much bigger victory for Ecuador.