Seeking to forestall a judgment running to the tens of billions of dollars in its so-called "Rainforest Chernobyl" litigation, Chevron on September 23rd filed a notice of arbitration against the Government of Ecuador under the U.S.-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty, or "BIT."

The Associated Press has a good breakdown...

When Navy SEALs aboard the USS Bainbridge rescued Captain Richard Phillips on Sunday, they killed three Somali pirates and captured a fourth. Almost immediately, senior military and intelligence officials made clear their intention to transfer him out of Navy custody, charge him with crimes, and try him in a...

Monday's hearing in the Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan "extraordinary rendition" lawsuit was a rude awakening for civil libertarians expecting the Obama/Holder Justice Department to make a clean break from Bush era policies on secrecy.

Most lefty commentators greeted the news that DOJ will (at least for the time being)...

Opening arguments in Bowoto v. Chevron began early Tuesday morning in federal district court in San Francisco, and it became clear within the first few minutes that company lawyers are worlds apart from Mr. Bowoto and his co-plaintiffs on almost every important factual element of the case.

Leaving Judge...

Nigeria's Delta State is not a good place to be an environmentalist. In fact, it's not a very good place to be a Nigerian. Delta State is quite a nice place for oil companies though; since oil was found there in 1956 multinationals like Chevron and Shell have extracted billions...