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12 Aug 2011, 4:00 am
Patton Boggs was counsel to the Lago Agrio plaintiffs. [read post]
9 Aug 2011, 10:19 am
Kennedy, Jr. dismissed the Patton Boggs suit asking the court to declare the firm free from any ethical conflicts in its representation of Ecuadorian plaintiffs in a human rights matter against Chevron. [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 10:21 am
Judge Kennedy also ruled that Patton Boggs could not amend its complaint to allege that Chevron and Gibson Dunn had tortiously interfered with its contract with the Ecuadorian plaintiffs and had engaged in a civil conspiracy, since Patton Boggs had not alleged facts suggesting that they had caused any actual breach of the contract. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 4:00 am
Those of you who are following the Lago Agrio litigation will know that when the Ecuadorian plaintiffs first sued Texaco, they sued in the United States, and Texaco persuaded the court to dismiss the case on forum non conveniens grounds, arguing for the adequacy of the Ecuadorian courts as a forum. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 3:18 am
On the verge of losing litigation they asked be transferred to Ecuador, Chevron has sued the lawyers for the Lago Agrio Ecuadorian plaintiffs alleging RICO violations in the form of judicial tampering. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 3:32 am
Chevron now argues that the Ecuadorian legal system suffers from deficiencies that should render the judgment unenforceable.Recently, other defendants have also been experiencing this type of “forum shopper’s remorse. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 7:22 am
Law firm conflicts allegations in the news: "Chevron Ecuador: Patton Boggs Law Firm Works For, Then Against, Chevron" -- "Patton Boggs, the Washington DC law firm that Chevron Ecuador plaintiff lawyer Steven Donziger brought in to take some heat and spotlight off of him as allegations of fraud and general Ecuadorian dirty-dealing surfaced, also lobbied for Chevron. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 12:59 pm
Last year, Patton Boggs asked Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. of Washington federal district court to declare that the firm is in the ethical clear to advocate for Ecuadorian plaintiffs in the human rights matter against Chevron. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 4:00 am
Salazar (S.D.N.Y. 2011), relates to Chevron’s efforts to take the depositions of three of the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ Ecuadorian lawyers, Pablo Fajardo Mendoza, Juan Pablo Saenz, and Julio Prieto Mendez, and to take the deposition of Luis Francisco Yanza, who is the co-founder of the Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia, known as the “ADF”. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 4:00 am
Naranjo, the case now on appeal in the Second Circuit, in which Chevron sought and obtained a preliminary injunction barring the Lago Agrio plaintiffs from seeking recognition and enforcement of the multi-billion dollar Ecuadorian judgment against [...] [read post]
2 Jul 2011, 3:30 am
District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a preliminary injunction that prevented the Ecuadorian plaintiffs from enforcing the judgment. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 4:00 am
That broad proposition is dead after Centro and Arfa.Centro, the more important of the two decisions, involves a Delaware LLC that owned an Ecuadorian telecommunications company known as Conecel. [read post]
5 Jun 2011, 6:26 pm
But, look, I have no dog in this fight, and maybe the Ecuadorian plaintiffs here have a real case against Chevron. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 11:51 am
Both Chevron and the Ecuadorian plaintiffs appealed the ruling. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 4:53 am
The new Fortune magazine has coverage of the Lago Agrio scandal, and supplements it on the web with Roger Parloff's tale of the latest evidence of Ecuadorian corruption: a judicial opinion that quotes heavily not from any of the court filings, but from an internal plaintiffs' firm memo. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 4:00 am
(3d Cir. 2011); previously the court had approved Chevron’s request for judicial assistance to obtain discovery from UBR, a New Jersey environmental firm that the Ecuadorian plaintiffs had hired in the underlying case. [read post]
31 May 2011, 5:52 am
Ecuadorian plaintiffs‘ br. at 23. n.7. [read post]
26 May 2011, 1:25 pm
The Ecuadorian plaintiffs contend that the district Court misstated the law regarding waiver of the attorney-client privilege, causing it to omit fairness considerations in its analysis, and that consequently its ruling that the attorney-client privilege was waived for all documents in Kohn's file related to the Lago Agrio litigation primarily on the basis of the filming of the documentary Crude, which chronicled the Lago Agrio litigation, was too … [read post]
26 May 2011, 12:15 pm
Chevron refused to negotiate, and in February, 2011 the Ecuadorian Provincial Court awarded plaintiffs nearly $18 billion in compensatory and punitive damages. [read post]
26 May 2011, 7:20 am
Consider today's Legal Intelligencer reporting on the Third Circuit reversing an order permitting the deposition of Joseph Kohn in the Ecuadorian oil pollution cases: U.S. [read post]
