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Which Courts Decide The Most Judicial Assistance Cases?
The U.S. judicial assistance decisions are not evenly distributed throughout the country. I thought it would be interesting to see which courts have decided the most cases within the Letters Blogatory scope of coverage. There are some caveats, cautions, and provisos. We have only about five months of decisions. My Westlaw query may have missed……
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Case of the Day: In re Chevron Corp.
The case of the day, In re Chevron Corp. (D. Md. 2010), is one of Chevron’s applications for judicial assistance in the Lago Agrio case. Chevron sought discovery from two of the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ experts. It sought the discovery for use in the Lago Agrio case itself as well as for use in the……
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Case of the Day: Kaiser Group International v. World Bank
The case of the day is Kaiser Group Int’l, Inc. v. World Bank (D.C. Cir. 2011). It has an interesting procedural history. Kaiser contracted to build a steel mill for Nova Hut, a firm partially owned by the Czech Republic. The project was financed by the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank……
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Heraeus Kulzer Revisited
Louis M. Solomon has a new post with an interesting take on Heraeus Kulzer GmbH v. Biomet, Inc. (7th Cir. 2011), a case we covered here back in January. In Heraeus, the court held that the district court had abused its discretion by refusing a German plaintiff’s request for discovery under § 1782 for use……
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From the Lago Agrio Desk
There are two developments today in the Lago Agrio saga. You can find all Letters Blogatory coverage of the Lago Agrio case here. First, Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ motion to recuse himself. The motion seemed fairly weak, given that to the extent the judge had formed a negative opinion of Donziger……