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Lago Agrio: Second Circuit Denies En Banc Review
As expected, the Second Circuit has denied Steven Donziger’s petition for a rehearing en banc in the Chevron RICO case. The court also denied the LAPs’ petition, which I did not separately cover. What next?
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Lago Agrio: Donziger Seeks Rehearing En Banc
Steven Donziger has petitioned the Second Circuit to rehear his appeal of Judge Kaplan’s judgment in the RICO case en banc. It’s a Deepak Gupta brief, so it’s well-done and a good read. Will it be successful? Here are a few thoughts.
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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……