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Case of the Day: Loeb ex rel. Universal Travel Group v. First Judicial District Court
The case of the day is Loeb ex rel. Universal Travel Group v. First Judicial District Court (Nev. 2013). Loeb brought a shareholder derivative action on behalf of Universal Travel Group against its officers and director, Jiangping Jiang, Jiang Xie, Hujie Gao, Jiduan Yuan, Lizong Wang, Wenbin An, Lawrence Lee, Yizhao Zhang, and Liquan Wang,……
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Lago Agrio: Chevron Tries To Drop All Damages Claims Against Donziger
Update: Here is some rank speculation that occurred to me. I wondered in this post why Chevron would continue to try to bifurcate the issues if the trial is going to be a bench trial. Try this on for size: Chevron intends to get findings of fact and conclusions of law from Judge Kaplan on……
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Noel Doran On The Pensive Quill and Anthony McIntyre
Noel Doran is the editor of the Irish News in Belfast. A US blog on international judicial assistance may not often be asked to consider the curious story of an Irish writer who does not exist, but regular readers of Letters Blogatory are unlikely to be surprised by the latest twists in the case of……
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Doug Cassel on the New Partial Arbitral Award
Chevron advocate, professor of law, and friend-of-Letters-Blogatory Doug Cassel weighs in on the new arbitral award in the Chevron-Ecuador investment treaty arbitration. In his recent post on the new arbitral award in the Chevron-Ecuador investment treaty arbitration, Ted Folkman wondered, first, whether Chevron “will seek to use the ultimate arbitral award as the basis for……
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Lago Agrio: Second Circuit Denies The Petition For Mandamus, Judge Kaplan To Remain On Case
In a brief order, the Second Circuit today denied the petition of the Lago Agrio plaintiffs and Steven Donziger for a writ of mandamus that sought to remove Judge Kaplan from the RICO case, to vacate some of his prior orders, and to delay the start of the trial. Roger Parloff, who it seems was……