A happy outcome for counsel
All you in-house lawyers out there might want to raise a hearty cheer for the D.C. Circuit. Outside counsel may want to clap also. For a panel of the appeals court held in In re Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc., No. 14-5055 (D.C. Cir. June 27, 2014), that you can convert mandatory
Billions in bonds
You have a $2.5 billion judgment in a U.S. court against Argentina on bonds it defaulted on, but you have a problem. You can't find assets in the U.S. to satisfy the judgment. The pesky Argentines keep all of their seizable valuables overseas.
Can you get help from the U.S. court?
The U.S.
A panel of the Seventh Circuit split 2-1 on whether to halt a district judge's order that called for a big drug-maker in Germany to ship a baker's dozen of its workers to New York for depositions. In re Petition of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., No. 13-3898 (7th Cir. Jan. 24, 2014). The court
The expense of a big document case lies mainly in the looking for, the sifting through, and the analysis of your client's, and the other side's, megabytes and terabytes of ESI — "electronically stored information", in the words of Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
You'd like to shift that burden to
Chevron and the Republic of Ecuador have beaten and bloodied each other for two decades now in what seems like just about every U.S. and Ecuadoran court that exists. The fight relates to claims in arbitration that Chevron predecessor Texaco polluted oil fields in Ecuador. Background here. And it has so far resulted in
Who likes contention interrogatories? Anyone? Anyone at all?
Blawgletter agrees. But Once in a Blue Moon they may matter. Ask DeAngelo Marine Exhaust, which lost its Best Defense as a result of paying them not enough mind.
Marine Exhaust Systems sued DeAngelo for infringing two patents. The patents dealt with systems for cooling exhaust that spews from the
Nightmare on the stand
The trial judge asks your client what happened to the originals of two key documents. Your client admits she has them at home. The UPS lawyer loudly insists that he'd asked for the "originals" over and over again in discovery.
What does the trial judge do? Order a recess until your