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Belfast Project Update: The Government Opposes The Researchers’ Motion to Intervene
As you know, we are closely following developments in the Boston College Belfast Project case here in Boston. In summary, the US government, at the request of UK authorities under the two countries’ mutual legal assistance treaty, has sought leave to issue a subpoena to Boston College to obtain oral histories that BC collected from……
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Case of the Day: A Love Of Food I, LLC v. Maoz Vegetarian USA, Inc.
The case of the day is A Love of Food I, LLC v. Maoz Vegetarian USA, Inc. (D. Md. 2011). Maoz, a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in New York, sold franchises for “quick-service” vegetarian restaurants in the United States. A Love Of Food was one of the franchisees, operating a restaurant……
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Breaking News: Second Circuit Vacates Chevron Preliminary Injunction
On Monday, the Second Circuit vacated Judge Kaplan’s preliminary injunction enjoining the Lago Agrio plaintiffs from seeking recognition and enforcement of the Ecuadoran court’s judgment against Chevron. An opinion is to issue in due course. The court’s reasoning is not clear from its brief, two-page order. We have covered the injunction extensively. I initially reported……
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New Hague Conference Table on the Hague Evidence Convention
The Hague Conference on Private International Law has recently published a helpful table showing which states have made an Article 23 declaration, and what kind of declaration they have made. Article 23 is the bête noire of American lawyers seeking documentary discovery abroad: it provides: A Contracting State may at the time of signature, ratification……