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Lago Agrio comes to Ontario: Chevron and the $19B judgment
Today we have a guest post from Alejandro Manevich of Heenan Blaikie, who was in court for the first day of argument in the Yaiguaje appeal in Ontario. Alejandro, one of the editors of the new Standardless Review blog (where this is cross-posted), gives a great blow-by-blow of the argument. Long-time readers will know that……
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Case of the Day: King v. King
The case of the day is King v. King (Ft. Peck Ct. App. 2011). It’s something you don’t see every day: a recognition and enforcement decision in the courts of one Native American tribe concerning the judgments of the court of another tribe. The Fort Peck Tribal Court is the court of the Assiniboine and……
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Kickstarter Project of the Day: Please Lend A Hand!
My friend Luke Farrer is coming to the end of a Kickstarter campaign for creating a 3D map of Australia’s Claustral Canyon that I hope you’ll take a minute to support. Here’s his description: Carrying the latest in 3D laser scanners, I will abseil down Claustral’s three sheer waterfalls to the base of the slot……
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Case of the Day: Box v. Dallas Mexican Consulate General
The case of the day is Box v. Dallas Mexican Consulate General (N.D. Tex. 2013). The case was on remand from the Fifth Circuit. I wrote about the earlier decision in September 2012. In short, Box was a real estate broker; the claim arose out of Box’s work attempting to find new premises for the……
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FOIA Update
I’m sorry, everyone, I haven’t had time to cover Judge Zambrano’s recent testimony yet. However, I did want to update you on two additional FOIA documents I’ve received. The first is the State Department’s response to Bill Irwin’s email following the meeting I’ve written about before. I think people on the LAPs’ side, fairly or……