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...Their claims were largely financed by litigation funder Burford Capital in exchange for a percentage of the award....
...Earlier this year, Judge Loretta Preska in effect denied an attempt by Argentina to delay the enforcement of the judgment....
...Adding to the government’s problems is a ruling on Thursday by a US federal judge, Loretta Preska, who ruled last year that Argentina must pay $16bn to two now-defunct investors in energy firm YPF following...
...While it pursues its case in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Loretta Preska has ordered it to post assets worth some $5bn as collateral by January 10, after which point plaintiffs say they would...
...Moreover, Judge Preska may have gotten the measure of damages completely wrong....
...While she did not mention a specific sum in the 25-page judgment, Preska largely sided with plaintiffs, disagreeing only with the date on which interest had begun to be due, which she moved by a few weeks...
...The judge in that case, Loretta Preska, railed against Argentina’s legal team for implying that litigation funders’ involvement was a relevant factor, writing that the nation owed “no more or less because...
...Argentina’s criticism of the company’s role in the case was rebuked by Judge Loretta Preska, who wrote that the “Republic owes no more or less because of Burford Capital’s involvement”....
...Last Friday, Judge Loretta Preska effectively ordered Argentina to pay two minority shareholders of the expropriated oil major YPF up to $16bn in damages and interest, bringing a decade-long legal battle...
...Preska said the case was strictly about Donziger’s refusal to obey court orders and not about the broader allegations....
...Lorretta Makumbe, a lawyer, said she had woken up at 1am in excitement about voting for the first time....
...Between tears Weiner told Judge Loretta Preska “I knew this was morally wrong and unlawful.”...
...“I knew this was as morally wrong as it was unlawful,” Weiner told Judge Loretta Preska who received his guilty plea. “I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse.”...
...On Thursday, Judge Loretta Preska backed a warrant issued by a US magistrate last December, after an oral hearing in federal court in New York. She stayed the order pending appeal....
...Evidence is required,” wrote Ms Preska....
...Loretta Preska, the judge in charge of the case, on Tuesday dismissed the charge of conspiring to sell fraudulent tax shelters at the request of Michael Garcia, the US Attorney for Manhattan....
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