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Two Modes of Comity
I’m very excited about my first paper on SSRN, Two Modes of Comity, which is to be published in the forthcoming issue of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law. The paper is based on remarks I gave at JIL’s 2012 Fall Symposium in Philadelphia. Here is my point in a nutshell. Sometimes people……
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Lago Agrio: Argentina’s Attorney General Seeks Lifting of the Embargo
Argentina’s attorney general, Alejandra Magdalena Gils Carbó, has asked Argentina’s Supreme Court to lift the embargo or attachment of Chevron’s assets in Argentina, which the Argentine courts had entered under the Inter-American Convention on Execution of Preventive Measures. In November 2012, I reported on the embargo, and in January 2013 I reported on an Argentine……
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Case of the Day: Landstar Global Logistics v. Robinson & Robinson
The case of the day is Landstar Global Logistics, Inc. v. Robinson & Robinson, Inc. (Cal. Ct. App. 2013). Landstar had won a judgment against Robinson in the Florida state courts. Landstar brought an action to recognize and enforce the Florida judgment in the San Diego County Superior Court. The court recognized the Forida judgment……
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Lago Agrio: A First Look At The Ontario Decision In Yaiguaje
As I reported yesterday, the Superior Court in Ontario has stayed the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ case for recognition and enforcement of their Ecuadoran judgment against Chevron and one of its Canadian indirect subsidiaries. In today’s post, I give a non-technical, “big picture” reading of the decision, leaving the technical discussion to the Canadian lawyers who……
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BREAKING: Ontario Judge Stays Ecuadoran Plaintiffs’ Recognition and Enforcement Action Against Chevron
Update: Here is the decision. I’ll have more tomorrow morning! This just in from Jeff Gray of the Globe and Mail: Ontario judge stays move by plaintiffs to collect on Ecuadorean $19B pollution judgment against Chevron. #Chevron #law Story coming soon. — Jeff Gray (@jeffreybgray) May 1, 2013 More to come as soon as it’s……