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Lago Agrio: Supreme Court Denies Donziger’s Petition For Review of His Contempt Conviction.
The Supreme Court has denied Steven Donziger’s petition for a writ of certiorari to review his conviction for contempt of court. At least two justices, Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, would have granted the petition, and Justice Gorsuch (joined by Justice Kavanaugh) published a dissent. The criminal charges against Donziger, and his conviction after trial, stemmed……
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Lago Agrio: Supreme Court Relists Donziger’s Case Again
The Supreme Court has once again put off a decision on Steven Donziger’s petition seeking review of his criminal conviction. The petition was first distributed for discussion at the justices’ January 13 conference, but since then it has been relisted for discussion on January 20, February 17, and now February 24. What does this mean?……
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Lago Agrio: Donziger Files Reply Brief
Happy new year, readers! As you can see, I am well on the way to migrating Letters Blogatory back to its original home at lettersblogatory.com. The work on this isn’t done yet. In particular, many links will need to be changed so that they point to the new site instead of the old site. At……
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Lago Agrio: Government Files Opposition to Steven Donziger’s Cert Petition
The government has filed its opposition to Steven Donziger’s petition seeking Supreme Court review of his conviction of criminal contempt of court. Donziger’s social media posts suggests he thought there was some chance the government might take his side in the matter, but I cannot believe there was any real chance the government would not……
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Lago Agrio: Dutch Appellate Court Affirms Decision Rejecting Ecuador’s Challenge to Arbitral Award
I’m a little late to this, but there has been a significant development in the investment treaty dispute between Chevron and Ecuador. As long-time readers know, an arbitral tribunal found that the Lago Agrio judgment was fraudulent and that Ecuador was liable to Chevron and had an obligation to suspend the Ecuadoran judgment’s enforceability. Ecuador……