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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……
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Case of the Day: Flame S.A. v. Freight Bulk Pte. Ltd.
The case of the day is Flame S.A. v. Freight Bulk Pte. Ltd. (4th Cir. 2014). Flame was a Swiss shipping and trading company. It entered into forward freight swap agreements with Industrial Carriers, a firm organized under an unspecified country’s law that did business in New York. “What’s a forward freight swap agreement,” I……
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FOIA: The Anticlimax
The State Department has now produced all of the documents responsive to my second FOIA request. I submitted the request on April 25 of this year, and so the process, from start to finish, took just over three months. Compared to the nearly three years I have been waiting for the response to my first……