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Lago Agrio: The Amici Are Coming!
Several amici curiae have filed briefs with the Second Circuit. Here are the briefs, for your reading pleasure. I haven’t had the time to do more than scan them yet. Brief of the Proposed Huaorani Intervenors Brief of Environmental, Human Rights, and Other Groups Brief of EarthRights International Brief of the Republic of Ecuador Brief……
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FOIA: Next Moves
Having been unable to get the State Department to tell me whether it is willing to give me copies of the correspondence between it and Chevron concerning whether some of the public records I requested in my first FOIA request should be withheld on confidentiality grounds, I have now filed a motion asking the judge……
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Case of the Day: Senah, Inc. v. Xi’an Forstar S&T Co.
The case of the day is Senah, Inc. v. Xi’an Forstar S&T Co. (N.D. Cal. 2014). Senah had sued Xi’an but had voluntarily dismissed the action in order to start over and serve Xi’an with process in accordance with the Hague Service Convention.
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Case of the Day: Commissions Import Export SA v. Republic of the Congo
The case of the day is Commissions Import Export S.A. v. Republic of the Congo (D.C. Cir. 2014). This is the appeal of the decision I reported in January 2013. The holding in the District Court was that where a party to a foreign arbitration has obtained a judgment confirming the award from a foreign……
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Cartas Blogatorias Starts Today
Readers, if you’re looking for great Spanish-language coverage of international litigation, check out Letters Blogatory’s sister blog, Cartas Blogatorias, which opens for business today. I’m very excited about this and grateful to the new blog’s editors-in-chief, Javier Ochoa Muñoz and Claudia Madrid Martínez, for all their efforts getting this off the ground. At the bottom……