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Lago Agrio: What Goes Around Comes Around
Although all eyes are on the RICO case in Judge Kaplan’s court, other bits and pieces of the Lago Agrio case are proceeding in courts and arbitral tribunals around the world. One particularly interesting piece of the case is the case of the Huaorani people against Steven Donziger, which I’ve covered before. Very briefly: in……
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Case of the Day: Maroc Fruit Board v. M/V Almeda Star
The case of the day is Maroc Fruit Board, S.A. v. M/V Alemda Star (D. Mass. 2013). Like Maroc Fruit Bd. v. M/V Vinson, 2012 A.M.C. 2278 (D. Mass. 2012), which I covered last year, the case involved a claim of a shipment of fruit that went bad, but it seems that there were two……
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Lago Agrio: Day 2
Readers, I trust you understand that my coverage of the trial is incomplete. Because I only have access to the witness statements (i.e., to what would be the testimony of Chevron’s witnesses on direct examination) and not to the cross-examination, I am only able to report on half of the goings-on. I’m looking into ways……
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Case of the Day: Karpov v. Browder
The case of the day is Karpov v. Browder, [2013] EWHC 3071 (QB). The case arose out of the death of Sergei Magnitsky in a Russian prison in 2009. Magnitsky had been investigating a tax fraud committed in Russia. His death in custody was widely condemned, and in fact, the US enacted a new statute,……
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Lago Agrio: Day 1
The Lago Agrio RICO trial got under way today in New York. Reuters has a pretty good summary. To the defendants’ dismay, Judge Kaplan is using a procedure that is not uncommon these days in bench trials: parties offer the direct testimony of their witnesses in affidavits, and the witnesses are then subject to live……