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10 Nov 2010, 5:09 am
Kaplan found "substantial reason to believe that [Richard] Cabrera, the supposedly neutral expert [appointed by the Ecuadorian court in Lago Agrio], worked in collusion with the plaintiffs. [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 3:56 pm
In an opinion released Friday, U.S. district judge Lewis Kaplan finds evidence to support Chevron's claims of a fraud orchestrated by plaintiffs in an Ecuadorian court. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 10:07 am
The American Lawyer has posted six excerpts from the outtakes of lawyer Steven Donziger in the "documentary" Crude that Chevron claims demonstrates an attempt to corrupt the Ecuadorian justice process. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 12:01 am
With a hat tip to Opinio Juris, here is the court's order, allowing Chevron's lawyers to depose the plaintiffs' lawyer in the Ecuadorian environmental case related to Lago Agrio. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 2:54 am
by Roger Alford Yesterday a federal district court granted Chevron’s motion under Section 1782 to discover communications and interactions that Steven Donziger and others affiliated with the Lago Agrio plaintiffs had with Ecuadorian courts, the Ecuadorian Special Master, and the Ecuadorian government. [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 12:26 pm
The plaintiff's suit claims that the landlord is responsible for the trespasser's death because he aggressively removed himself without contacting authorities, which would be the proper legal procedure. [read post]
22 Sep 2010, 12:00 pm
Back for More in Ecuador – Nice little cash cow for Winston & Strawn (for the Ecuadorian government), and Chevron's defense counsel at Gibson Dunn, Jones Day, and King & Spalding. [read post]
22 Sep 2010, 10:45 am
In the massive toxic tort litigation against Chevron in Ecuador, plaintiffs have returned to Ecuadorian court with a damages claim of more than $100 billion. [read post]
22 Sep 2010, 10:37 am
The news release provides a "greatest hits" account of the plaintiff team's conniving and falsehoods, devastating revelations made public through Chevron's use of 1782 motions to obtain testimony from witnesses involved in the Ecuadorian activities, including damning outtakes from the documentary, "Crude. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 8:11 pm
” This from US Magistrate Judge Dennis Howell, in North Carolina, on arguments by plaintiffs’ lawyers in the Chevron Ecuador environmental damages case that this was just how it was done in Ecuadorian courts. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 7:35 pm
Magistrate Judge Dennis Howell in Asheville, North Carolina, put it this way: “While this court is unfamiliar with the practices of the Ecuadorian judicial system, the court must believe that the concept of fraud is universal, and that what has blatantly occurred in this matter would in fact be considered fraud by any court. [read post]
15 Sep 2010, 7:18 pm
., 303 F. 3d 470 (2d Cir. 2002) was filed by a group of Ecuadorian citizens in US federal court 17 years ago (Aguinda v. [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 12:54 pm
From his Legal Pad report, "Evidence of fraud mounts in Ecuadorian suit against Chevron":FORTUNE -- A lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador, which has become a cause célèbre for environmentalists worldwide, has suffered severe, crippling setbacks in recent months, as key plaintiffs lawyers have come under credible and weighty allegations of fraud.... [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 6:02 pm
The documentary chronicles the legal struggle by 30,000 Ecuadorian rainforest residents over Chevron’s illegal dumping of more than 18 billion gallons of toxic water into the Amazon. [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 1:53 pm
The appeal arises out of the plaintiffs' Ecuadorian lawsuit against Chevron. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 7:33 am
Lawyers for the plaintiffs were equally energetic in their attempts to prevent access to the footage. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 9:00 am
To be clear, the grievances of the Plaintiffs are real and decidedly unfortunate. [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 9:30 am
In fact, outrage seems appropriate, based on what we know so far of the relationship between the plaintiffs lawyers and a court-appointed Ecuadorian expert, as captured in outtakes from a documentary about the environmental tort litigation against Chevron. [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 5:12 am
Oregon 7-year-old gets apology, she can go on running her lemonade stand after all [Skenazy, Josh Blackman] “Judicial recusals and politics make a bad mix” [Bainbridge] Sypher guilty in extortion trial [Above the Law and followup, earlier] “Chevron’s Explosive Filing on Collusion Between Plaintiffs and the Ecuadorian Court-Appointed Expert” [Roger Alford, Opinio Juris and more, Alison Frankel/American Lawyer, Anderson, Volokh, ShopFloor] Meet… [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 10:18 pm
The apparent purpose of the meeting between the plaintiffs and Cabrera was to develop a plan for the drafting of the independent expert’s report that Cabrera would write as Special Master for submission to the Ecuadorian court. [read post]
