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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……
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Lago Agrio: New State Department Records Show Extent Of Lobbying
The latest batch of FOIA records from the State Department shed further light on the lobbying concerning the Lago Agrio case. Among other interesting items, we now know that Chevron’s CEO personally lobbied the Secretary of State. Read on!
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Case of the Day: In re Barkats
The case of the day is In re Barkats (Bankr. D.D.C. 2014). In early 2014, several creditors of Pierre Philippe Barkats filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition. They served it on him by “delivery through owner and co-resident” at a home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, which Barkats’s lawyer had listed as Barkats’s address in a document……
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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.