| In Nigeria Oil Case
Featuring Bid To Seal Documents Now Supreme
Court Ford Case Cited
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 6 – In the ongoing
Nigerian oil case of Statoil
versus NNPC which Inner City
Press has covered long before
the COVID-19 pandemic, on
April 20, 2020 there was an
oral argument before which a
slew of documents were sought
to be sealed.
Among
those are minutes of a meeting
in Houston, Texas and the
compensation of NNPC
officials. Before, in person,
they asked to have the
courtroom sealed.
Now it is
documents.
U.S. District for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Richard M. Berman
to his credit previously pushed
back at sealing his
courtroom, to Inner City
Press, and his telephone
conference on April 20 was
open to the Press. We asked:
but will the documents be?
Now a year
later on April 6, 2021,
counsel to Statoil (Nigeria)
and Texaco Nigeria has written
to Judge Berman to formally
raise the U.S. Supreme Court's
decision in Ford Motor Co. v.
Montana Eighth Judicial
District Court, 141 S. Ct.
1017 (2021) - in which
Justices Alito, Gorsuch and
Thomas concurred (the latter
two mocking the majority's
defective duck decoy
hypothetical), and Justice
Barret took no part. They say
it is relevant to the motion
to dismiss.
The case is
Statoil (Nigeria) Limited, et
al., v. Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation,
18-cv-2392 (Berman).
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