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Lago Agrio: Second Circuit Denies The Petition For Mandamus, Judge Kaplan To Remain On Case
In a brief order, the Second Circuit today denied the petition of the Lago Agrio plaintiffs and Steven Donziger for a writ of mandamus that sought to remove Judge Kaplan from the RICO case, to vacate some of his prior orders, and to delay the start of the trial. Roger Parloff, who it seems was……
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Paper of the Day: Gómez on The Global Chase: Seeking the Recognition and Enforcement of the Lago Agrio Judgment Outside of Ecuador
Manuel A. Gómez, professor of law at Florida International University and friend of Letters Blogatory, has posted The Global Chase: Seeking the Recognition and Enforcement of the Lago Agrio Judgment Outside of Ecuador to SSRN. Manuel has been teaching a course that focuses on the Chevron/Ecuador case, so he is a natural for an article……
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New Extradition Case In Boston
I’m going to be following a pretty interesting extradition case here in Boston, involving Alexander Hilton, who has been charged with attempted murder in Scotland. The case is interesting to me for a couple of reasons. First, US/UK judicial assistance in criminal cases was a central issue in the Belfast Project case, and so I……
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Letters Blogatory’s FOIA Case: The Government’s Answer
The State Department answered my FOIA complaint today. The answer was 30 days late—something I didn’t realize until I took at look at the statute—but who’s counting? Here are my two favorite sentences from the answer: [T]he Department admits that it has interacted several times with Plaintiff but has not to date produced any records……
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BREAKING: Supreme Court denies Moloney & McIntyre’s Petition for Certiorari in the Belfast Project Case
Today marks the end of the road for Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre in the US courts. Without comment, the Supreme Court has denied their petition for a writ of certiorari. Thus the First Circuit decision will be the last word in the case. As an added bonus, the Supreme Court’s decision doesn’t make me……