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Fanny Cornette on EC Regulation 1393/2007
Letters Blogatory contributor Fanny Cornette shares thoughts on the recent European Commission report on the operation of EC Regulation 1393/2007 Once again, I want to write a post concerning a regulation of the European Union. EC Regulation 1393/2007 is, for the member states of the European Union, the counterpart of the 1965 Hague Convention on……
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Lago Agrio: More Details On Chevron’s Lobbying of the State Department
Chevron has lobbied the State Department with regard to the Lago Agrio dispute on several occasions. The contacts between the company and the Department have been more extensive, and at a much higher level on both sides, than I previously was able to report. In my last post on the issue, I reviewed the evidence……
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Atlantic Marine: The Supreme Court on Exclusive Choice of Court Agreements
Yesterday the Supreme Court decided Atlantic Marine Construction Co. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas (S. Ct. 2013). Atlantic Marine was a Virginia corporation with its principal place of business in Virginia. It had a contract with the Army Corps of Engineers to build a child development center at Fort……
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Lago Agrio: Trial Ends with Unusual Own Goal
The trial of Chevron’s RICO claims against Steven Donziger and the Lago Agrio plaintiffs came to an end in New York last week. There’s a lot I could write about, but I’m going to focus on one issue that came up late in the trial and then give some thoughts about what’s next. One of……