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Lago Agrio: Ecuador Wins A Round In The Investment Treaty Arbitration
Ecuador had a win yesterday in its investment treaty arbitration with Chevron. The tribunal issued its decision on track 1B of the case.
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Lago Agrio: Judge Guerra Revisited
There has been a juicy leak in the Lago Agrio case that raises more questions about Judge Kaplan’s findings that the Lago Agrio judgment was ghostwritten.
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Lago Agrio: MCSquared Sues Sharon Stone?
Here is the most amusing ancillary litigation to arise out of the Lago Agrio to date, as far as I know. MCSquared, the PR firm that Ecuador hired, that failed at first to register as Ecuador’s agent under the FARA, and that paid Mia Farrow to visit Ecuador to support the government’s PR efforts, has……
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Lago Agrio: DeLeon Surrenders; Chevron Claims Another Scalp
Chevron has settled its claims against James Russell DeLeon and his firm, Torvia Ltd., which funded the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ litigation. Roger Parloff published a copy of the Settlement Agreement in a Fortune article.
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Case of the Day: Chevron v. Snaider
The case of the day is Chevron Corp. v. Snaider (D. Colo. 2015). I haven’t written about a Lago Agrio-related case in a while. It’s good to be back! Chevron, after applying under § 1782, obtained leave to serve a subpoena on Andres Snaider. Snaider, an Ecuadoran national living in Connecticut, was the founder of……