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Case of the Day: Application of Setraco Nigeria Ltd.
The case of the day is In re Application of Setraco Nigeria Ltd. (M.D. Fla. 2013). Setraco Nigeria Ltd., an engineering company in Ahuja, Nigeria, alleged that in 2012 it discovered that two of its employees, Michel Nehme and Bechara Karam, had incorporated entities using the Setraco name in the United States and Canada without…
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Case of the Day: Bleier v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland
The case of the day is Bleier v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland (N.D. Ill. 2011). The case is a putative class action. The plaintiffs claim that they are the holders of pre-WWII German bonds, on which Germany ceased making repayments in 1933. The substantive point in the case was whether the court had subject-matter jurisdiction in light…
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Case of the Day: In re Request for International Judicial Assistance
The case of the day is In re Request for International Judicial Assistance from the Sixteenth Family Court of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Federal District (N.D. Cal. 2014). In connection with divorce proceedings in Mexico, a Mexican family court sent a letter rogatory, apparently through the diplomatic channel, to the United States…
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Was the Lago Agrio Judgment Ghostwritten?
Chevron advocate and friend-of-Letters-Blogatory Doug Cassel is back with his take on the judgment ghostwriting issue. I’ll respond to some of his points in the comments. In a January 7 post Ted Folkman makes an ambitious—albeit “tentative”—effort to assess the voluminous evidence of fraud committed by Steven Donziger and certain other plaintiffs’ attorneys in the…
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Case of the Day: First Investment Corp. of the Marshall Islands v. Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding
The case of the day is First Investment Corp. of the Marshall Islands v. Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding, Ltd. of the People’s Republic of China (E.D. La. 2012). The case involved a shipbuilding contract. The Fujian Group, a Chinese state-owned enterprise, and Mawei, a private corporation that was majority-owned by Fujian, refused to honor a contractual…