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Case of the Day: CEEG (Shanghai) Solar v. LUMOS LLC
The case of the day is CEEG (Shanghai) Solar Science & Technology Co. v. LUMOS LLC (10th Cir. 2016). CEEG was a Chinese solar panel manufacturer. LUMOS was a solar energy company in Colorado. The parties had a co-branding agreement under which LUMOS agreed to purchase at least a minimum number of solar panels from…
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Case of the Day: In re Vivaro Corp.
The case of the day is In re Vivaro Corp. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2015). Vivaro Corp. filed a Chapter 11 petition in the bankruptcy court in 2012. Breezecom FZC and several other parties filed claims in the bankruptcy case, and Vivaro objected to the claims. There is a split in authority on how objections to claims…
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Case of the Day: Coloplast v. Generic Medical Devices
In today’s case of the day, Coloplast A/S v. Generic Medical Devices, Inc. (W.D. Wash. 2011), Coloplast, a Danish firm, sued Generic Medical for patent infringement. Generic Medical moved to compel Coloplast to produce documents in the possession of Poges, one of its French subsidiaries. The judge’s Aérospatiale analysis was a bit dodgy. Generic argued…
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Case of the Day: SEC v. Nagaicevs
The case of the day is SEC v. Nagaicevs (N.D. Cal. 2013). The SEC alleged that Igors Nagaicevs, a Latvian national, had gained unauthorized access to online brokerage accounts and made trades in those accounts to manipulate securities prices in his favor. It brought claims under § 17(a) of the Securities Act and § 10(b)…
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Case of the Day Chevron Corp. v. Salazar
The battle before Judge Kaplan continues in the Lago Agrio case. All our prior coverage is here. Today’s case of the day, Chevron Corp. v. Salazar (S.D.N.Y. 2011), relates to Chevron’s efforts to take the depositions of three of the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ Ecuadorian lawyers, Pablo Fajardo Mendoza, Juan Pablo Saenz, and Julio Prieto Mendez,…