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Case of the Day: Ecuador v. Dassum
The case of the day, Republic of Ecuador v. Dassum (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2014), has nothing whatever to do with the Lago Agrio litigation. Roberto Isaias Dassum and William Isaias Dassum were indirect shareholders of Filanbanco, an Ecuadoran bank that failed in 2001. Under the law that created the Agencia de Garantia de Depositos—Ecuador’s……
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Lago Agrio: The Donziger Brief
As promised last week, here are some comments on Steven Donziger’s Second Circuit brief, which his lawyer filed before the holiday.
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Case of the Day: Murtech Energy Services v. ComEnCo Systems
The case of the day is Murtech Energy Services, LLC v. ComEnCo Systems, Inc. (E.D. Mich. 2014). ComEnCo, a Canadian firm, was in the business of manufacturing HVAC equipment. Murtech was its exclusive sales representative in Ontario and Michigan. The business relationship soured, and Murtech sued ComEnCo as well as its wholly owned subsidairy, ComEnCo……
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Lago Agrio: The Plaintiffs File Their Brief With The Second Circuit
Many trees were felled today as the Lago Agrio plaintiffs filed their brief in the Second Circuit, seeking to reverse Judge Kaplan’s judgment against them in the RICO case. The appendix alone ran to seventeen volumes. The Ecuadorans are represented on appeal by Burt Neuborne, the Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties at NYU Law……
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Lago Agrio: The Louis Berger Group Report—Letters Blogatory Cops Out
I set out to write a post about both sides’ evidence on Texaco’s responsibility for pollution in the Oriente based on recent memorials submitted to the arbitrators in the BIT arbitration between Chevron and Ecuador.