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Lago Agrio: Patton Boggs and Burford Redux
In June I reported on Patton Boggs’s attempt to show that the Bogart Declaration, which Burford Capital submitted after it turned on Donziger and the LAPs, was—not to put too fine a point on it—a PR hit job intended to smear Patton Boggs, based on outright falsehoods. Unfortunately, Patton Boggs’s brief was heavily redacted. “I……
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FOIA Update: Government Ordered to Produce Vaughn Index
For those of your following my FOIA case, Judge Zobel today ordered the State Department to produce a Vaughn Index within thirty days. This was not a great victory—although the government refused to assent to my motion when I filed it, the government didn’t oppose it. So if all goes according to plan, on August……
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Lago Agrio: Judge Kaplan Allows Chevron’s Microsoft Subpoena
I have an interesting Lago Agrio decision for you today, Chevron Corp. v. Donziger (N.D.N.Y. 2013). The Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ PR people called to my attention. After I read it, I wondered whether they had read my Belfast Project coverage, and in particular my discussion of Wigmore’s approach to claims of a First Amendment privilege……
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Lago Agrio Update
I have some updates for you in the Lago Agrio case. First, the Lago Agrio plaintiffs have won a victory in Ecuador. Recall that Chevron had won a $96 million award against the Republic of Ecuador in an investment treaty arbitration in the Netherlands; a court in Washington has just confirmed the award. Now the……
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Letters Blogatory FOIA Update: I’ve Filed A Motion Seeking Production Of A Vaughn Index
Those of you who have been following my FOIA suit against the State Department know that so far the whole thing has been an exercise in frustration. I submitted my FOIA request nearly two years ago, and even though I sued the government several months ago, I still have not been told whether any responsive……