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Lago Agrio: Update On The Arbitral Award
As I suggested a few days ago, the Lago Agrio plaintiffs have trumpeted their intention to seek to compel the government of Ecuador to pay the $100+ million arbitral award in favor of Chevron, which is now final, to the LAPs rather than to Chevron. I am still trying to determine what happened to the……
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Case of the Day: Ecuador v. Dassum
The case of the day, Republic of Ecuador v. Dassum (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2014), has nothing whatever to do with the Lago Agrio litigation. Roberto Isaias Dassum and William Isaias Dassum were indirect shareholders of Filanbanco, an Ecuadoran bank that failed in 2001. Under the law that created the Agencia de Garantia de Depositos—Ecuador’s……
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Lago Agrio: Judge Kaplan Refuses To Stay The Injunction
Judge Kaplan has denied the request by Steven Donziger and the Lago Agrio plaintiffs to stay his injunction pending appeal. This was not unexpected, and under FRAP 8(a)(2), Donziger and the LAPs can now renew their motion in the Second Circuit. The judge mostly didn’t buy Donziger’s claims of irreparable harm, claiming that it rested……
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Lago Agrio: FOIA Update
The latest batch of FOIA documents from the State Department have arrived. Here are some highlights:
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Lago Agrio Comes to Boston
I played hooky yesterday afternoon and attended two events at Harvard that, as far as I know, were scheduled on the same day purely by coincidence. First was a talk by Steven Donziger at the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program. The second was a talk by Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, at the Kennedy School’s……