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Case of the Day: Mare Shipping, Inc. v. Squire Sanders (US) LLP
The case of the day is Mare Shipping, Inc. v. Squire Sanders (US) LLP (2d Cir. 2014). The case arose out of the sinking of the Prestige, an oil tanker, off the coast of Spain in 2002, which resulted in a large oil spill. Apostolos Mangouras, the captain of the ship during the accident, had……
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Case of the Day: Clientron Corp. v. Devon IT, Inc.
The case of the day, Clientron Corp. v. Devon IT, Inc. (E.D. Pa. 2014), seems flagrantly wrong. The facts were simple enough. Clientron was a Taiwan corporation. It had a contract with Devon, a Pennsylvania corporation, for the manufacture and delivery of computer components. The contract had an arbitration agreement. A dispute arose, and Clientron……
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Lago Agrio: My Visit to Aguarico 4
Since returning from Ecuador, I’ve had two jobs: digging out from the pile of emails and papers that taking a week off from work generated, and doing my best Woodward and Bernstein imitation. I’ve tried to gather some more information about the sites we saw before writing about them. I’ve spent a fair amount of……
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Case of the Day: Cermesoni v. Maneiro
The case of the day is Cermesoni v. Maneiro (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2014). Carolina Cermesoni Maneiro brought divorce proceedings against her husband, Jorge Raul Cermesoni, in Buenos Aires. Both spouses were Argentine nationals living in Argentina. The husband had bank accounts at Wells Fargo and Citibank in Miami. The wife sought issuance of a……
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Argentine Debt: Argentina Starts Proceedings Against the US In The ICJ
My colleague Claudia Madrid Martínez at Cartas Blogatorias has a post today noting that Argentina has file an application with the International Court of Justice seeking to institute a claim against the United States on account of the debt default. The claim, according to the ICJ’s press release, is that the US “has committed violations……