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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.
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FOIA: Can A Blog Be Part Of The News Media?
Short story: the government says my FOIA requests are not entitled to be processed as quickly as a newspaper reporter’s requests, because I write on a blog. Read on!
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LaVenture v. United Nations: The Romance of the Process Server
A theater of the absurd played out on the streets of Manhattan last week. The plaintiffs for a class of Haitian victims of the cholera epidemic seeking to sue the United Nations and several of its officials in the Eastern District of New York hired a process server to serve the summons and complaint on……
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Lago Agrio: The Ecuadorans’ PR People Step In It
A few weeks ago Paul Barrett reported on a tacky but seemingly insignificant misstep by the public relations people advising the Ecuadoran plaintiffs in the Chevron case: Several dozen demonstrators gathered outside the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum in Midland to condemn Chevron, which held its annual meeting on Wednesday at the historic site in the……