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Lago Agrio: The Racich Report
Readers, as you know, I am in the middle of a very busy spell and so have not been updating the blog as often as I would like. But I know you will want to have the Racich Report to mull over right away. This, recall, is Ecuador’s expert report aiming to undercut Chevron’s claims,……
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Case of the Day: Barot v. Zambia
The case of the day is Barot v. Embassy of the Republic of Zambia (D.C. Cir. 2015). I first wrote about the case in April 2014. The question in the case was whether dismissal was proper for failure to comply with the service of process provisions of the FSIA. As I noted in my prior……
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Case of the Day: Autodesk v. ZWCAD
The case of the day is Autodesk, Inc. v. ZWCAD Software Co. (N.D. Cal. 2015). The claim was for copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation; Autodesk claimed that ZWCAD, a Chinese firm, had committed a “wholesale theft of its proprietary source code.” There was a protective order in the case, but ZWCAD claimed that it……
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Event Announcement: Georges v. United Nations
The Boston Bar Association, the oldest and dare I say best bar association in the country, is hosting an event on May 7 titled: “Pioneering a Networked Approach to International Justice from Boston: A Discussion of Georges v. United Nations.” The Georges case seeks to hold the United Nations and some of its officials liable……
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The Government’s Amicus Brief In POSCO
I noted the Federal Circuit’s curiosity about § 1782 in In re POSCO, a mandamus case in which the court, sua sponte, asked the parties and then the government to brief the question whether § 1782 is the exclusive means to obtain evidence for use in a foreign proceeding.