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Case of the Day: Altain Khuder LLC v. IMC Mining
HT to Global Arbitration Review (subscription required) for bringing to light the case of the day, Altain Khuder LLC v. IMC Mining, Inc. (Victoria Supreme Court 2011). IMC Mining had a contract with Altain Khuder to provide plans for an iron ore mine in Mongolia and then to operate the mine. Altain Khuder was required,……
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Case of the Day: Myrtle v. Graham
In today’s case of the day, Myrtle v. Graham (E.D. La. 2011), Myrtle and British-American Insurance Group sued Graham and Aon Corp. for libel in the St. Tammany Parish District Court in Louisiana. The claim was that Graham, on behalf of Aon, had sent letters to various third parties falsely stating that Aon would no……
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Case of the Day: SEC v. Tourre
Our Case of the Day is SEC v. Tourre (S.D.N.Y. 2011). Fabrice Tourre was a key player in the Goldman Sachs CDO story. The allegation was that Goldman Sachs sold collateralized debt obligations to its clients and then bet that the CDOs would fall in price. For those interested in the underlying allegations, here is the seminal 2009 article from……
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Case of the Day: In re Chevron Corp.
Our case of the day, In re Chevron Corp. (3d Cir. 2011), is the Third Circuit’s contribution to the dozens of Lago Agrio-related judicial assistance proceedings around the country. I won’t rehash the background to the Lago Agrio case again, except to say that the Third Circuit evidentally shares my sense of the irony involved……
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Case of the Day: In re Search of Premises
In the case of the day, In re Search of Premises Located at at 840 140th Ave. NE, Bellevue, Wash. (9th Cir. 2011), the Russian government sought judicial assistance in aid of its criminal investigation of Arkady Gontmakher for illegal crabbing. The United States and Russia are parties to a mutual legal assistance treaty, which requires the……