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Case of the Day: Nicholas v. Environmental Systems
The case of the day is Nicholas v. Environmental Systems (International) Ltd. (Tex. Ct. App. 2016). In a Canadian copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Frederick Nicholas against Environmental Systems, Brian G. Cook, Reif Winery Inc., Klaus Reif, and Re/Defining Water Inc., the court awarded costs and attorney’s fees to the defendants. Environmental Systems and the……
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Case of the Day: Silver Star Alpine Meadows v. Quinlan
The case of the day is Silver Star Alpine Meadows Development, Ltd. v. Quinlan (Cal. Ct. App. 2016). Lora and Stephen Quinlan had a contract to purchase lots in an undeveloped subdivision in a British Columbia ski resort. They refused to close, believing the seller, Silver Star, had changed the topography of the lots in……
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One Last Post On The Lago Agrio Canadian Proceedings (For Now)
With apologies to those of you who are not Chevronologists and who just want to read a good ol’ fashioned § 1782 case, I’d like to say just a bit more about the corporate separateness issue, in light of the LAPs’ brief, which became available to me just recently. The LAPs do want to get……
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Lago Agrio: International Judgment Arbitrage?
I’d like to do a little more analysis of the ongoing hearing in Canada on the Lago Agrio judgment, since in the absence of a transcript of yesterday’s hearing on Chevron’s motion for summary judgment I don’t have any hard news to report. As I suggested yesterday, I think that the LAPs’ view is that……
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Lago Agrio: Summary Judgment Hearing In Canada (With a Reader Poll!)
Amazon Watch issued a press release yesterday that said that we were “less than a week before a trial is scheduled to begin in Toronto to seize Chevron’s assets in Canada to force the company to comply with its liability to remediate what many call the ‘Amazon Chernobyl’ in Ecuador.” Exciting! Unfortunately, though, not quite……