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“In January of this year, Russia’s lawyers at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey — including James Murphy, Alan Briggs and Jeremy Dutra in the Washington office, who declined comment — asked to be removed from the case. They had lost contact with their client, they told the court, and weren’t being paid. In March, they withdrew the request, explaining only that they had “reached an accommodation” with their client. Meanwhile, Chabad discovered that pages of the handwritten teachings were turning up on the Israeli black market, where they were selling for $10,000 to $20,000 per page, according to Nathan Lewin. Russia denied that the pages had come from the military archive, but Lamberth issued an injunction on Jan. 27 ordering Russia to step up its efforts to protect the contents of the library.” more@Law.com