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Breaking News: Second Circuit Denies Chevron’s Motion For Relief
Today the Second Circuit denied Chevron’s motion for relief in a brief order, without opinion. In my post of January 5, 2011, I gave some substantive and procedural reasons for thinking that the motion should be denied. On the procedural side, there wasn’t a clear hook for Chevron to seek what was, in effect, reconsideration……
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Judge Kaplan Denies Chevron’s Motion or an Attachment
In a little bit of an anticlimax after yesterday’s dramatic developments, there was some more good news for the Lago Agrio plaintiffs today. Judge Kaplan denied Chevron’s motion for an attachment. Recall that Chevron had sued Donziger (the Lago Agrio plaintiff’s US lawyer) and several of the Lago Agrio plaintiffs themselves for RICO violations and……
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Chevron Seeks Relief in the Second Circuit
Here’s an update on the quickly-moving Lago Agrio case, following on yesterday’s decision by the Ecuadoran appellate court affirming the multi-billion dollar judgment against Chevron. Here is a copy of the Ecuadoran judgment, in Spanish, with portions translated. Chevron has filed a motion with the Second Circuit asking the court to grant relief from its……
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Ecuadoran Appeals Court Affirms Judgment Against Chevron
The BBC is reporting that an Ecuadoran appellate court has affirmed the $18 billion judgment against Chevron. I don’t yet have further details on the decision yet. Chevron has issued a press release rejecting the decision. Opinio Juris has coverage. Readers may recall that the Ecuadoran plaintiffs stipulated that they would not begin proceedings to……
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Legislation of the Day: Ecuador To Refuse To Enforce Spanish Mortgages
Nicolás Zambrana Tévar has posted at Conflict of Laws.net on an unusual and maybe ridiculous bill before the Ecuadoran parliament on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. I’ve written before about the SPEECH Act, the new US statute that forbids recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in defamation cases unless the foreign proceedings gave……