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A New Kind of Estoppel?
I want to thank all of the contributors to today’s symposium. I’m really pleased and honored to be able to host what I think has been a very good discussion of a significant current issue. I want to comment briefly on what Whytock and Robertson have to say about estoppel. As I understand their position,……
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A Response to the Whytock/Robertson Proposal
Aaron Marr Page is the Managing Attorney at Forum Nobis pllc and an advocate for the Lago Agrio plaintiffs. Chris Whytock and Cassandra Robertson have produced an excellent and timely piece of scholarship and kudos to Letter Blogatory for so keenly picking up on its import and hosting this symposium. I must pause to note……
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Symposium: Forum Non Conveniens And Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
I am very pleased to welcome readers to the first ever Letters Blogatory symposium! I got the idea from the folks at Opinio Juris, who do such things regularly and well. The topic of our mini-symposium is the relationship between the doctrine of forum non conveniens and the defenses that a judgment debtor can offer……
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Judge Kaplan Dismisses Some Claims Against Donziger
Judge Kaplan issued two decisions in Chevron’s RICO action against Steven Donziger yesterday, and predictably, both sides found a way to spin the decisions as a success. Recall that the gist of the claim is that Donziger and others orchestrated a scheme to extort money from Chevron by bringing a baseless lawsuit in Ecuador, creating……
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BC Files Its Brief
An update from the now somewhat dormant Belfast Project case: here is Boston College’s appellate brief. In a way, this brief is a better read than Moloney & McIntyre’s, because it doesn’t have to deal with any of the underbrush in their case: standing, claims of a private right of action under the MLAT, all……