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Belfast Project: Report on the Hearing on NBC’s Request To Unseal Documents
Yesterday, Judge Young heard arguments on NBC’s request to unseal the Belfast Project materials. Curiously, NBC did not appear at the hearing. It may be that it did not receive notice of the hearing. This is not surprising, since rather than entering an appearance through counsel and making a motion to lift the order of……
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Belfast Project: NBC and PSNI Make New Moves
I’m saving up the remainder of my Hague coverage until Monday. Check back then! NBC News has submitted a request to Judge Young to unseal the tapes and transcripts that BC had submitted to him for inspection in camera. This has, as you MIT imagine, caused some unhappiness on team McIntyre/Moloney. There is an initial……
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Congratulations, Montreal!
I had a bet with fellow law blogger Karim Renno of Irving Mitchell Kalichman, better known to the internet as the author of the excellent À Bon Droit. The bet was: if the Boston Bruins won their best-of-seven playoff series with the Montreal Canadiens, then Karim would write a guest post for Letters Blogatory and……
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Lago Agrio: Chevron Settles With Patton Boggs
Yesterday Chevron settled its claims against Patton Boggs. This was probably inevitable after the dismissal of Patton Boggs’s claims against Chevron. Patton Boggs is trying to consummate a merger with Squire Sanders, and it’s hard to imagine anyone agreeing to the merger while Chevron’s claim was unresolved.
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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……