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Case of the Day: the Akhbar Beirut Case
The case of the day is the Akhbar Beirut case (S.T.L. 2016). The case, for contempt, was brought against a Lebanese newspaper company and its editor-in-chief, Ibrahim Al Amin, for contempt of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, an international tribunal established by the Security Council to hear cases brought against people accused in the February……
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Case of the Day: Chevron v. Donziger
Steven Donziger, the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ US lawyer, was caught on tape telling members of his litigation team: “Facts do not exist, facts are created.” What does that mean? There’s the nefarious interpretation of course—lawyers should make up the facts they need to win a case, without regard to what’s true. Everyone should reject that……
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Case of the Day: SiOnyx v. Hamamatsu Photonics
The case of the day is SiOnyx LLC v. Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (D. Mass. 2016). SiOnyx and the President and Fellows of Harvard College brought an action against Hamamatsu Photonics, a Japanese corporation, and its American subsidiary, Hamamatsu Corp., and others. The plaintiffs effected service on Hamamatsu Corp., but they conceded that they had not……
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Update on Boal v. United States: The Bergadhl Case
Readers, as promised, I am keeping my eye on the Boal v. United States case, which I wrote about last week. After I posted, Boal filed a brief that strengthened his case somewhat insofar as it asserts that he had made promises of confidentiality to Sgt. Bergdahl. But my view is unchanged.