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Belfast Project: First Circuit Denies Government’s Petition for Panel Rehearing
The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has denied the government’s petition for a panel rehearing in the Belfast Project case. As I noted in my post on the petition, the government was not seeking to change the outcome of the case. Rather, it objected to the panel’s reasoning to the extent the panel……
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Belfast Project: Anthony McIntyre and Allison Morris Square Off
Belfast Project protagonist Anthony McIntyre has been highly critical online of Irish News journalist Allison Morris—a dust-up in which, I’m sorry to say, Letters Blogatory played an incidental role. In March 2013, I reported on McIntyre’s suspension by the National Union of Journalists for breach of its code of conduct: the suspension arose out of……
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Lago Agrio: Judge Kaplan Denies Patton Boggs’s Motion to Strike the Bogart Declaration
Back in April I reported on a declaration by Christopher Bogart, the CEO of the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ former litigation funder, Burford Capital. As I wrote in a later post, the declaration “basically threw Patton Boggs under the bus by claiming that the law firm had persuaded Burford to invest in the litigation by defending……
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Case of the Day: South Carolina v. Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
The case of the day is South Carolina v. Hitachi Displays, Ltd. (D.S.C. 2013). South Carolina sued Epson Imaging Devices Corp., a Japanese company, for conspiring to fix prices on thin film transistor-liquid crystal display panels. The case had been stayed pending resolution of a petition for certiorari in the Supreme Court. The state asked……
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Event Announcement: Ontario Bar Association Event on International Commercial Arbitration
Readers in Toronto, check out the Ontario Bar Association’s upcoming event,