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Case of the Day: Amtim Capital v. Appliance Recycling Centers of America
E-mail subscribers: This post has a lengthy footnote. Best read in your browser! Courtesy of esteemed fellow blogger and IJA Brigade member Antonin Pribetić, who clearly has found his muse again, the case of the day is Amtim Capital, Inc. v. Appliance Recycling Centers of America, 2013 ONSC 4867. Appliance Recycling, or ARCA, was a……
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Belfast Project: Government Petitions For Panel Rehearing
The government has filed a petition seeking a rehearing before the panel of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit that decided the most recent Belfast Project appeal. The government is not asking the panel to modify the actual result of the case, i.e., it is not asking that more of the interviews be……
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Case of the Day: Giraldo v. Drummond Co.
The case of the day is Giraldo v. Drummond Co. (N.D. Ala. 2013). The plaintiffs were the wives, parents, or children of people who had been murdered by the AUC paramilitary group in Colombia. They sued Drummond, which, it claimed, had made an agreement with the AUC to provide security for the area around one……
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Case of the Day: BCB Holdings Ltd. v. Attorney General of Belize
The case of the day is BCB Holdings Ltd. v. Attorney General of Belize (C.C.J. 2013). It is, I think, our first case from the Caribbean Court of Justice. In order to settle a commercial dispute, BCB Holdings Ltd. and the Belize Bank, Ltd. entered into a settlement agreement with the government of Belize in……
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Lago Agrio: Patton Boggs and Burford Redux
In June I reported on Patton Boggs’s attempt to show that the Bogart Declaration, which Burford Capital submitted after it turned on Donziger and the LAPs, was—not to put too fine a point on it—a PR hit job intended to smear Patton Boggs, based on outright falsehoods. Unfortunately, Patton Boggs’s brief was heavily redacted. “I……