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Case of the Day: SerVaas Inc. v. Republic of Iraq
The case of the day is SerVaas Inc. v. Republic of Iraq (2d Cir. 2013) (mem.). We have considered the case twice before: first we looked at the District Court’s decision granting SerVaas’s motion for summary judgment; then we looked at some post-judgment discovery issues. Here were the facts: Servaas had a contract with the……
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Doug Cassel on the New Partial Arbitral Award
Chevron advocate, professor of law, and friend-of-Letters-Blogatory Doug Cassel weighs in on the new arbitral award in the Chevron-Ecuador investment treaty arbitration. In his recent post on the new arbitral award in the Chevron-Ecuador investment treaty arbitration, Ted Folkman wondered, first, whether Chevron “will seek to use the ultimate arbitral award as the basis for……
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Lago Agrio: Brazil Update
IJA Brigade member Rafael Salomão Romano has sent in a brief update on the status of the Lago Agrio homologation case in Brazil. Rafael previously posted about the case back in July 2012. Here’s the latest: the Superior Tribunal de Justiça had sought an opinion on the case from the Federal Public Attorney, because the……
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Whytock on The “Chevronization” of Transnational Litigation
Friend-of-Letters-Blogatory Chris Whytock, Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine and adviser to the ALI on the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, has posted a new paper, Some Cautionary Notes on the “Chevronization” of Transnational Litigation, which is to be published in the Stanford Journal of Complex……
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Case of the Day: Van Damme v. Gelber
The case of the day is Van Damme v. Gelber, 2013 ONCA 388. Thanks to friend-of-Letters-Blogatory Antonin Pribetić for bringing it to light at the Trial Warrior Blog. Nahum Gelber was a Canadian national living in Monaco. Alexandre Van Damme claimed that he had a contract with Gelber to purchase a painting Gelber owned. But……