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Belfast Project Hearing Wrap-up
Thanks to all of you who followed along with the liveblog or commented! I enjoyed covering the event for you. As predicted, this turned out to be an easy case—so easy that the government’s lawyer barely had to say two words. There was really no answer, on a doctrinal level, to the judge’s observation that……
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Reminder: Letters Blogatory Liveblog
For those of you who are following the Belfast Project case, this is just a reminder that at 2 p.m. Eastern time (that’s 7 p.m. for those of you in Ireland) on January 24, Judge Young will be holding a hearing on the government’s motion to dismiss the complaint Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre have……
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Belfast Project Update
[UPDATED: I added a point 4, which is now the second-to-last paragraph] I was interviewed today on RTÉ Radio 1’s This Week program on the Belfast Project litigation here in Boston. I didn’t get to hear the whole program (or even my interview), but I did catch interviews that the reporter, Fran McNulty, had with……
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Chevron Seeks Relief in the Second Circuit
Here’s an update on the quickly-moving Lago Agrio case, following on yesterday’s decision by the Ecuadoran appellate court affirming the multi-billion dollar judgment against Chevron. Here is a copy of the Ecuadoran judgment, in Spanish, with portions translated. Chevron has filed a motion with the Second Circuit asking the court to grant relief from its……
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Project Belfast: Judge Young Denies Motion To Quash
We have been closely following the Boston College Project Belfast case. If you haven’t been following, this is the case in which the government, at the request of the UK authorities, issued a subpoena to Boston College’s Project Belfast for oral histories that BC researchers took from participants in the Northern Ireland conflict. The researchers……