Maduro-selected attorneys Quinn Smith, Diego Gosis and Katherine Sanoja of GST LLP assert that attorneys for opposition leader Juan Guaido never received permission from the Washington DC court to substitute as counsel for Venezuela, and that GST LLP never consented to such a substitution. This is one instance of an ongoing power struggle between the two Venezuelan leaders before several US courts over which government has the right to appear in litigation filed against the crisis-stricken nation.