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Breaking: Justice Breyer Extends the Belfast Project Stay
Justice Breyer extended the temporary stay in the Belfast Project case today, without referring the application to the full court. Here is the text of his order: Oct 17 2012 Application (12A310) granted by Justice Breyer. UPON FURTHER CONSIDERATION of the application of counsel for the applicants, the response filed thereto, and the reply, IT……
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Lago Agrio: New Ecuadoran Decision
Here, courtesy of the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ PR people, is a copy of a new decision by the Provincial Court of Justice in Sucumbios, the Ecuadoran court at the center of the Lago Agrio case. Unfortunately, no translation is yet available as far as I know, so I can’t really comment on the merits. The……
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Belfast Project: The Government Opposes the Application for a Stay
Yesterday the government filed its opposition to Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre’s application to Justice Breyer for a stay in the Belfast Project case. In an earlier order, Justice Breyer had granted a temporary stay pending the government’s opposition. The brief was filed by Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. It makes two kinds of……
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Breaking: Supreme Court Denies Cert. in Naranjo
Today the Supreme Court denied Chevron’s petition for a writ of certiorari in Chevron v. Naranjo, the case in which the Second Circuit had vacated Judge Kaplan’s preliminary injunction barring efforts at obtaining recognition and enforcement of the Lago Agrio judgment. The Second Circuit’s decision rested on what I think was a questionable basis, namely,……
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Response to Danny Morrison
Anthony McIntyre was the lead interviewer for the Belfast Project. In a copy and paste of what earlier this week he had posted on his own comments-not-allowed blog. Danny Morrison reiterated his demand on Letters Blogatory that ‘Ed Moloney has some explaining to do.’ How frustrating it must be for Morrison that Moloney is not……