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Case of the Day: Lombard-Knight v. Rainstorm Pictures
The case of the day is Lombard-Knight v. Rainstorm Pictures, Inc. (Cal. Ct. App. 2015). Rainstorm was a California movie production company. It entered into two investment agreements with Fortnom & Co. SA, under which Fortnom was required to provide $300 million upon Rainstorm’s delivery to it of performance bonds. It turned out, according to……
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Case of the Day: Core VCT plc v. Hensley
The case of the day is Core VCT plc v. Hensley (D.D.C. 2015). Core VCT and Core VCT IV plc, both of which were English public limited companies with their principal places of business in London, sued James Hensley in the High Court. They obtained a default judgment there, and they brought an action for……
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Lago Agrio: ICC Prosecutor Rejects LAPs’ Complaint
In October 2014 I noted a complaint the LAPs submitted to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court asking her to begin an investigation with an eye toward bringing charges against Chevron. As I noted at the time, “It would be very surprising to me if the LAPs’ claims have merit.”
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MCSquared’s FARA Problem: Not Very Interesting
When MCSQuared’s failure to register under FARA became known last year, I fired off a FOIA request to try to obtain correspondence between the government and MCSquared on the issue.
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Mia Farrow, Meet Annie Oakley!
Readers, you know I have been following the story of celebrities brought to Ecuador to participate in the “Dirty Hand of Chevron” campaign for a while. Celebrities such as Mia Farrow actually traveled to Ecuador and had their photos taken with sticky black goo on their hands. Something about this story was jogging my memory—where……