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Lago Agrio: Dutch Supreme Court Affirms Decision In BIT Arbitration
The Hoge Raad (the Dutch Supreme Court) has affirmed a lower court’s decision refusing to annul the interim awards in favor of Chevron in its investment treaty arbitration against Ecuador arising out of the Lago Agrio case. I covered one of the interim awards in February 2012, if you can believe that, as well as……
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Lago Agrio: Supreme Court of Canada Denies Ecuadorans’ Application for Leave to Appeal
Yesterday the Supreme Court of Canada denied an application by the Lago Agrio plaintiffs for leave to appeal from the decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in May 2018, which held that the Lago Agrio plaintiffs cannot reach the assets of Chevron’s indirect subsidiary in Canada to satisfy the judgment against Chevron they obtained……
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Lago Agrio: Donziger Appeals
Steven Donziger has sought leave to appeal the decision of the Appellate Division holding that Judge Kaplan’s findings that he had corrupted the Ecuadoran judicial process in the Lago Agrio case were preclusive and could not be relitigated in Donziger’s bar discipline case.
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Lago Agrio: New York Appellate Court Reverses Referee’s Decision on Collateral Estoppel
Back in November I noted a decision in the disciplinary case against Steven Donziger: the referee who was to decide the sanction Donziger will face had ruled that although Judge Kaplan’s findings of fact had had preclusive effect with respect to the question whether Donziger had violated the rules of professional conduct, the findings should……
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Persons
I noticed several days ago that Karen Hinton, the PR representative of Steven Donziger and the Lago Agrio plaintiffs, was also the representative of Steven Wise’s Nonhuman Rights Project. What are the chances? I tweeted about the coincidence of her involvement in two cases I’ve been following very closely, which was probably a bad idea,……