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Aaron Marr Page on the Special Rapporteur Letter
Aaron Marr Page responds constructively to my post on his letter to the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders. I’ll briefly respond to one point and add one observation. As someone who watched things unfold, I can say that Ted’s speculative claim that “the reason Chevron’s threats were so potent was because……
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Lago Agrio: The LAPs Approach The Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders
The Europe / Third World Center and LAP advocate (and Letters Blogatory contributor) Aaron Marr Page have submitted a letter to the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Michael Forst. It seems highly unlikely to me that the letter will result in anything changing in the case, but I thought it was……
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Lago Agrio: Dutch Court Rejects Ecuador’s Motion to Set Aside the Interim Awards
The District Court of the Hague has rejected Ecuador’s attempt to set aside the interim awards entered by the tribunal hearing the BIT dispute between Ecuador and Chevron. As I have previously noted, the tribunal had ordered Ecuador to “take all measures necessary to suspend or cause to be suspended the enforcement and recognition within……
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Case of the Day: In re Application of the Republic of Ecuador
The case of the day is In re Application of the Republic of Ecuador (D. Mass. 2015). The case is basically a routine § 1782 request made by Ecuador seeking discovery from Dr. Gregory S. Douglas, one of Chevron’s expert witnesses, for use in the BIT arbitration. The case follows several earlier cases, which I……
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Lago Agrio: Chevron Wins Default Judgment Against Amazonia
In my post on Chevron’s settlements of its Gibraltar lawsuit against James Russell DeLeon and Torvia Ltd., I noted that Chevron still had a pending claim against Amazonia Recovery, Ltd. and its directors, including Pablo Fajardo. Amazonia, recall, was the entity designed to receive and then to distribute the proceeds of the Lago Agrio judgment.