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Case of the Day: Haffner International Marketing Group v. Sahin
Email subscribers: This has footnotes—please read in your browsers! The case of the day is Haffner International Marketing Group, Inc. v. Sahin (D. Nev. 2013). Haffner was a Nevada corporation in the business of “porcelain, granite, and horse hoof repair.” Sahin lived in Turkey. Haffner hired Sahin in 2006, but in 2011 the relationship ended.……
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Case of the Day: Monagas v. Samsung
The case of the day is Monagas v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (D. Conn. 2013). The facts of the dispute are not made clear in the decision. Liana Monagas sued Samsung Electronics America, Inc., Samsung Electronics Corp., and Sears Roebuck & Co. in the Connecticut state courts. Samsung Electronics America and Sears removed the case……
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Lago Agrio: Doug Cassel on the New Ecuadoran Judgment
Here is Letters Blogatory contributor and Chevron advocate Doug Cassel on the recent Ecudaoran judgment. I comment below the post. To update the late Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, “$9 billion here, $9 billion there—pretty soon you’re talking real money.” In manipulating their $19 billion Lago Agrio judgment against Chevron (reduced last week to a……
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Case of the Day: Tobar v. United States
The case of the day is Tobar v. United States, 731 F.3d 938 (9th Cir. 2013). In October 2005, in international waters off the Galapagos Islands, Coast Guard personnel on the USS McClusky, a US Navy frigate, boarded and searched an Ecuadoran fishing boat, the Jostyn, suspected of drug smuggling, and then towed the boat……
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Lago Agrio: New York Update
So let’s get caught up with New York. First, Judge Zambrano’s testimony. You can find summaries from Paul Barrett, Roger Parloff, and Joseph Ax online. Judge Zambrano testified that he, not Judge Guerra, wrote the decision. So as far as direct evidence goes, score one for Donziger and the LAPs. But the cross-examination, according to……