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Second Circuit Explains Its Decision Reversing the Grant of Injunction To Enforce $18 Billion Award Against Chevron
Posted on 2 Feb 2012 by Cadwalader OneWorld International Practice

By Louis M. Solomon, Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Chevron Corp. v. Hugo Gerardo Camacho Naranjo , et al., No. 11-1150-cv(L), is the Second Circuit's decision explaining its ruling earlier in 2011 to reverse the District Court's... Read More

Tags: Ecuador , Chevron Corporation v Hugo Gerardo Camacho Naranjo , China Trade , rain forest , Louis Solomon , international comity , environmental damage , preliminary injunction , Second Circuit Court of Appeals , Cadwalader Wickersham , foreign judgment

Preliminary Injunction to Stay Ecuadorian Judgment Against Chevron in Amazonian Rain Forest Environmental Damage Case is Vacated by Second Circuit
Posted on 3 Oct 2011 by Cadwalader OneWorld International Practice

By Louis M. Solomon, Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP We have written on District Judge Kaplan's decision earlier this year - a 127-page decision preliminary enjoining enforcement, anywhere in the world, of an Ecuadorian judgment... Read More

Tags: Ecuador , Third Circuit Court of Appeals , Texaco , rain forest , Louis Solomon , Lago Agrio , environmental damage , preliminary injunction , Second Circuit Court of Appeals , Chevron , Cadwalader Wickersham , crude

Cadwalader Clients & Friends Memo: FERC Confirms It Lacks Jurisdiction over Unbundled Renewable Energy Certificate Sales
Posted on 8 May 2012 by Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

On April 20, 2012, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") issued an order accepting proposed revisions to the WSPP Agreement addressing sales of renewable energy certificates ("RECs") made pursuant to that agreement. In... Read More

Tags: alternative energy , unbundled , electric power , Western Systems Power Pool , Jurisdiction , Renewable Energy , Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , FERC , Cadwalader Wickersham , WSPP , renewable energy certificates

Cadwalader Clients & Friends Memo: First Time for Everything – Finding Unduly Discriminatory Treatment of Wind Generators and Compelling Circumstances, FERC Exercises Its Section 211A Authority to Order BPA to Change Its Ways
Posted on 24 Jan 2012 by Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has determined that Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA) use of environmental redispatch to address excess water supply and low load by curtailing renewable and thermal generators in favor of federal... Read More

Tags: wind power , hydropower , Bonneville Power Administration , dams , Federal Power Act , wind energy , Renewable Energy , hydroelectric power , FERC , Cadwalader Wickersham , redispatch

Second Circuit Explains Its Decision Reversing the Grant of Injunction To Enforce $18 Billion Award Against Chevron
Posted on 2 Feb 2012 by Cadwalader OneWorld International Practice

By Louis M. Solomon, Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Chevron Corp. v. Hugo Gerardo Camacho Naranjo , et al., No. 11-1150-cv(L), is the Second Circuit's decision explaining its ruling earlier in 2011 to reverse the District Court's... Read More

Tags: Ecuador , Chevron Corporation v Hugo Gerardo Camacho Naranjo , China Trade , rain forest , Louis Solomon , international comity , environmental damage , preliminary injunction , Second Circuit Court of Appeals , Cadwalader Wickersham , foreign judgment

Preliminary Injunction to Stay Ecuadorian Judgment Against Chevron in Amazonian Rain Forest Environmental Damage Case is Vacated by Second Circuit
Posted on 3 Oct 2011 by Cadwalader OneWorld International Practice

By Louis M. Solomon, Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP We have written on District Judge Kaplan's decision earlier this year - a 127-page decision preliminary enjoining enforcement, anywhere in the world, of an Ecuadorian judgment... Read More

Tags: Ecuador , Third Circuit Court of Appeals , Texaco , rain forest , Louis Solomon , Lago Agrio , environmental damage , preliminary injunction , Second Circuit Court of Appeals , Chevron , Cadwalader Wickersham , crude