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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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Digest for May 10, 2011
In re Canadian Private Copying Collective (D. Minn. 2011). Granting an application under the judicial assistance statute for leave to issue a subpoena to obtain business records for use in a Canadian civil case.
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Case of the Day: In re Veiga
In today’s case of the day, In re Veiga (D.D.C. 2010), we return to the Lago Agrio epic. In this installment, Chevron and its lawyers, Rodrigo Pérez Pallares and Ricardo Reis Veiga, sought to compel the deposition in the United States of Alberto Wray Espinosa, and the production of documents. Ecuador and the Lago Agrio plaintiffs intervened in the……
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Digest for April 1, 2011
In re FG Wilson (Engineering) Ltd. (S.D. Fla. 2011).There was no requirement under Colombian law that a litigant there seek leave of court before applying to a U.S. court for judicial assistance, and even if there were, it still would not have been error to grant an application for judicial assistance, as evasion of foreign……
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Gustavo Lamelas on the Judicial Assistance Statute
The March 2011 issue of the International Bar Association’s Arbitration News is out. Of particular interest in an article by Gustavo J. Lamelas of DLA Piper: The Evolving Standards for Extending US Discovery Assistance to International Arbitration. Lamelas notes that Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices has sparked “intense efforts to extend [the judicial assistance……