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Lago Agrio: Judge Kaplan Refuses To Stay The Injunction
Judge Kaplan has denied the request by Steven Donziger and the Lago Agrio plaintiffs to stay his injunction pending appeal. This was not unexpected, and under FRAP 8(a)(2), Donziger and the LAPs can now renew their motion in the Second Circuit. The judge mostly didn’t buy Donziger’s claims of irreparable harm, claiming that it rested……
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Letters Blogatory’s Second FOIA Request
Readers, let’s recap. In August 2011, I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the State Department, trying to get a handle on lobbying that Chevron or others may have done on Ecuador issues. The idea was to see whether Chevron was lobbying the State Department as effectively as it was lobbying, say, the……
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Case of the Day: Global Material Technologies v. Dazheng Metal Fibre Co.
The case of the day is Global Material Technologies, Inc. v. Dazheng Metal Fibre Co. (N.D. Ill. 2014). GMT was in the business of producing and selling metallic wool products. It alleged that it owned a 25% stake in Dazheng, a Chinese firm which was in the same business. GMT ultimately stopped producing some products……
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Paper of the Day: Coyle on Judgments Reciprocity
In Monday’s post I mentioned John Coyle’s new paper, Rethinking Judgments Reciprocity, which is forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review, but it’s worth its own post. The main point of the paper is to provide a model for thinking about whether to include a reciprocity requirement in judgment recognition statutes. But what really stands……
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Lago Agrio: FOIA Update
The latest batch of FOIA documents from the State Department have arrived. Here are some highlights: