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Lago Agrio: Supreme Court of Canada Denies Ecuadorans’ Application for Leave to Appeal
Yesterday the Supreme Court of Canada denied an application by the Lago Agrio plaintiffs for leave to appeal from the decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in May 2018, which held that the Lago Agrio plaintiffs cannot reach the assets of Chevron’s indirect subsidiary in Canada to satisfy the judgment against Chevron they obtained……
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Hello, Pierce Bainbridge!
Readers, as of today, I am a partner of Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP. My colleague Conor McDonough and I are opening the firm’s Boston office today! Let me introduce you to the firm and tell you how this came to be.
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Update on Service by Mail in Japan
Last week, Japan made a new declaration of opposition to service by postal channels under the Hague Service Convention. This resolves a traditional and longstanding difficulty.
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Persons
I noticed several days ago that Karen Hinton, the PR representative of Steven Donziger and the Lago Agrio plaintiffs, was also the representative of Steven Wise’s Nonhuman Rights Project. What are the chances? I tweeted about the coincidence of her involvement in two cases I’ve been following very closely, which was probably a bad idea,……
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I Was A Sucker
I remember the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998. I had just started law school. I was basically a supporter of the President’s political agenda—I had voted for him twice. And I did not like what I saw as the overreach of the Independent Counsel, Ken Starr. Starr had been appointed to investigate the Whitewater……