Hints and tips:
...Preska rejected the request on Thursday, ruling that the plaintiffs may begin attempting to recoup their award via asset seizures....
...Earlier this year, Judge Loretta Preska in effect denied an attempt by Argentina to delay the enforcement of the judgment....
...On Thursday Preska said that plaintiffs may begin attempting to seize the country’s assets to recoup their award, after Argentina failed to meet a January 10 deadline to post collateral pending its appeal...
...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....
...Judge Loretta Preska found Argentina liable in March, and set a three-day bench trial to decide on the damages to be awarded to Petersen and Eton Park, as well as the appropriate level of interest....
...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....
...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.”...
...Judge Preska focused on the issue of where the information was controlled from rather than where it was physically stored, Mr Newman said....
...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....
International Edition