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Lago Agrio: Arbitral Tribunal Finds Chevron Is Not Liable for the $19 Billion Ecuadoran Judgment
Update: Here is the award, which friend-of-Letters Blogatory Doug Cassel was good enough to provide. Second Update: Having now read the thing through, it seems to me that the WSJ was a little hasty in its conclusions, and I was a little hasty in relying on the WSJ. I’ll try to have a better look……
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Case of the Day: Lexmark International v. Ink Technologies Printer Supplies
The case of the day is Lexmark International, Inc. v. Ink Technologies Printer Supplies, LLC (S.D. Ohio 2013). The plaintiff sought leave to serve defendants in China and Germany via email. The judge noted that both China and Germany are parties to the Hague Service Convention. The judge granted the motion. He did not analyze……
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Case of the Day: Corporación Mexicana de Mantenimiento Integral v. PEMEX-Exploración Y Producción
The case of the day is Corporación Mexicana de Mantenimiento Integral v. PEMEX-Exploración Y Producción (S.D.N.Y. 2013). PEMEX Exploración y Produccion (“PEP”) was a subsidiary of the Mexican state-owned petroleum company, PEMEX. COMMISA was a Mexican subsidiary of KBR, Inc. In 1997, PEP and COMMISA entered into a contract for the construction of two offshore……
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Lago Agrio: Judge Kaplan Denies Chevron’s Motion to Bifurcate
On September 8, Chevron purported to waive all claims for money damages against the Lago Agrio Plaintiffs in the impending New York trial. Chevron said it intended to seek only equitable relief from the LAPs. If you’re not an American lawyer, you may wonder why Chevron would do this. The answer is that under the……
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Case of the Day: Jerez v. Republic of Cuba
The case of the day is Jerez v. Republic of Cuba (D.D.C. 2013). In 2005, Nilo Jerez sued Cuba and various government officials and agencies, including Fidel and Raul Castro, alleging that he had been tortured in a Cuban prison in the early 1970s. He obtained a default judgment in a Florida state court, and……