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Case of the Day: Chevron Corp. v. Shefftz
We return to the Lago Agrio case with today’s case of the day, Chevron Corp. v. Shefftz (D. Mass. 2010). In this installment, Chevron sought leave to depose and take other discovery from one of the authors of the expert reports the plaintiffs submitted in the Lago Agrio case, Jonathan S. Shefftz. Chevron was seeking…
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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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Case of the Day: King v. King
The case of the day is King v. King (Ft. Peck Ct. App. 2011). It’s something you don’t see every day: a recognition and enforcement decision in the courts of one Native American tribe concerning the judgments of the court of another tribe. The Fort Peck Tribal Court is the court of the Assiniboine and…
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Case of the Day: Republic of Argentina v. BG Group plc
The case of the day, Republic of Argentina v. BG Group plc (D.C. Cir. 2012), is related to one of the very first Letters Blogatory cases of the day. The case arises out of the Argentine financial crisis in 2001, when Argentina enacted emergency laws to unpeg the peso from the dollar, to convert dollar-based…