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BREAKING: Dolours Price, Central Figure in Belfast Project Case, Has Died
Dolours Price, the woman at the heart of the Belfast Project case, has died, according to news reports. Check back in with Letters Blogatory for analysis of what this will mean for the case. Update: I’ll be discussing this new development tomorrow on RTÉ Radio’s Morning Ireland program, which airs from 7 to 9 a.m.……
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Case of the Day: Alder v. Orłowska
IJA Brigade member Fanny Cornette is back with a look a Alder v. Orłowska, a new case from the European Court of Justice on fictitious service of process or notification au parquet in the European Union. Readers may recall that the case came up in the comments to Peter Bert’s piece on The Hague Service……
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Lago Agrio: Huaorani Intervention Denied
Judge Kaplan has denied the motion of the Huaorani for leave to intervene in Chevron’s RICO action. The Huaorani are a group of Lago Agrio plaintiffs who claim that Donziger and his team had wrongfully represented to the Ecuadoran court that they represented the interests of all Lago Agrio plaintiffs, when in fact they had……
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Lago Agrio: The New Erion Report
The Lago Agrio plaintiffs have published a new report by Graham Erion, the Canadian lawyer who has previously taken Chevron to task over the sufficiency of its disclosures to investors regarding the Ecuador litigation. The new report is a revised and expanded verison of the old. Now there are important new angles for Erion to……
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Syncrude Canada Ltd. v. Highland Consulting Group: A Reply to Ted Folkman
Cross-posted at The Trial Warrior. My blawging colleague, Ted Folkman over at Letters Blogatory, has an informative post about Syncrude Canada Ltd. v. Highland Consulting Group, Inc. (D. Md. 2013) a recent Maryland District Court decision dealing with service of process under the Hague Service Convention (“Syncrude”). In Syncrude, the Plaintiff, Syncrude Canada Ltd. (“Syncrude”……