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Case of the Day: Daguerre v. Rabizadeh
The case of the day is Daguerre S.A.R.L. v. Rabizadeh (N.Y. App. Div. 2013). Daguerre is a French auction house. It alleged that the defendant, Albert Rabizadeh, was the winning bidder at a 2007 auction in Paris for four antique Russian drinking cups. Daguerre sued for the purchase price in the Superior Court of Paris……
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Case of the Day: Yaiguaje v. Chevron Corp.
The case of the day is Yaiguaje v. Chevron Corp., 2013 ONCA 758. This is the appeal of the Ontario Superior Court’s decision staying the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ action for recognition and enforcement of the Ecuadoran judgment, which we covered in May 2013. Antonin Pribetić has early reaction to the new decision at The Trial……
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Case of the Day: Derr v. Swarek
The case of the day is Derr v. Swarek (S.D. Miss. 2013). Hermann P. Derr was the owner of Derr Plantation, Inc., a Mississippi corporation. The claim was that in 2005, Derr Plantation had made a contract with Thomas L. Swarek and Thomas A. Swarek for the lease and purchase of a farm Derr Plantation……
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Lago Agrio comes to Ontario: Chevron and the $19B judgment
Today we have a guest post from Alejandro Manevich of Heenan Blaikie, who was in court for the first day of argument in the Yaiguaje appeal in Ontario. Alejandro, one of the editors of the new Standardless Review blog (where this is cross-posted), gives a great blow-by-blow of the argument. Long-time readers will know that……
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Case of the Day: King v. King
The case of the day is King v. King (Ft. Peck Ct. App. 2011). It’s something you don’t see every day: a recognition and enforcement decision in the courts of one Native American tribe concerning the judgments of the court of another tribe. The Fort Peck Tribal Court is the court of the Assiniboine and……