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Update on UNCITRAL Working Group II meeting
We’ve reported a few of times on investment treaty arbitrations (the Argentina v. BG Group case, and the judicial assistance applications arising out of the Lago Agrio litigation, here and here). These arbitrations raise issues of public concern that are typically not present in traditional private arbitration, and therefore, there has been talk of a……
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Case of the Day: AO Technabexport v. Globe Nuclear Servs. & Gas Supply
In the case of the day, AO Techsnabexport v. Globe Nuclear Servs. & Gas Supply, Ltd., No. 09-2064 (4th Cir. Dec. 15, 2010), the Fourth Circuit affirmed a district court’s decision confirming an international arbitral award between a U.S. firm and a Russian firm buying and selling uranium, over objections that the tribunal had violated its……
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Case of the Day: Intercontinental Industries Corp. v. Luo
Our case of the day is Intercontinental Indus. Corp. v. Luo, Civ. A. No. 10-4174 (C.D. Cal. Jan. 20, 2011). Intercontinental sued Luo, the Communist Party Secretary of Hubei Province and owner of Wushan State Owned Industrial Holding Co., for fraud and violations of the RICO Act. The claim was that Luo induced Intercontinental to……
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Case of the Day: In re Application of Chevron Corp.
From the Blogatory Lago Agrio desk, and from my home base here in Massachusetts, comes today’s case of the day, In re Application of Chevron Corp., Civ. A. No. 10-MC-30022 (D. Mass. 2010). We reviewed the background of the epic Ecuadoran environmental litigation in the January 14 post on Chevron Corp. v. Berlinger. Bonifaz, once……
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Gary Born on In re Caratube
In my post on arbitral tribunals as “tribunals” under the judicial assistance statue, I raised the following objection to the cases holding that an arbitral tribunal is a “tribunal” for purposes of the statute: why should a party to an international arbitration, who is plainly an “interested party” under the judicial assistance statute, have the……