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More Dueling in the Lago Agrio Case
The Case of the Day is Chevron Corp. v. Donziger (S.D.N.Y. 2011). This is the action before Judge Kaplan, on which I’ve previously reported. All of my Lago Agrio coverage can be found here. As did Judge Kaplan, I’m assuming basic familiarity with the case. One of Chevron’s counts, Count 9, was for a declaration……
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Case of the Day: In re Chevron Corp.
The Third Circuit returns to Lago Agrio in today’s case of the day, In re Chevron Corp. (3d Cir. 2011); previously the court had approved Chevron’s request for judicial assistance to obtain discovery from UBR, a New Jersey environmental firm that the Ecuadorian plaintiffs had hired in the underlying case. Our previous coverage of the case is here.……
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Case of the Day: Chevron Corp. v. Shefftz
We return to the Lago Agrio case with today’s case of the day, Chevron Corp. v. Shefftz (D. Mass. 2010). In this installment, Chevron sought leave to depose and take other discovery from one of the authors of the expert reports the plaintiffs submitted in the Lago Agrio case, Jonathan S. Shefftz. Chevron was seeking……
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Case of the Day: In re Chevron Corp.
The case of the day, In re Chevron Corp. (D. Md. 2010), is one of Chevron’s applications for judicial assistance in the Lago Agrio case. Chevron sought discovery from two of the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ experts. It sought the discovery for use in the Lago Agrio case itself as well as for use in the……
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From the Lago Agrio Desk
There are two developments today in the Lago Agrio saga. You can find all Letters Blogatory coverage of the Lago Agrio case here. First, Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ motion to recuse himself. The motion seemed fairly weak, given that to the extent the judge had formed a negative opinion of Donziger……