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18 Aug 2011, 3:00 am by Ted Folkman
State Department reports describing the Ecuadorian judiciary as corrupt. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 4:00 am by Ted Folkman
Ecuador and the Lago Agrio plaintiffs intervened in the case. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 8:58 am by Roger Alford
Following the judgment, plaintiffs’ attorney Pablo Fajardo indicated that Chevron is authorized to request clarifications of the appellate court decision within the next month or so. [read post]
20 Sep 2015, 8:14 am by Thomas G. Heintzman
The plaintiffs sued in Ontario for the recognition and enforcement of the Ecuadorian judgment. [read post]
22 Sep 2010, 12:00 pm by law shucks
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]
17 Feb 2012, 6:18 pm by Julian Ku
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — An “order” issued Thursday from a private investor arbitration panel purporting to freeze a nine-year environmental litigation against Chevron in Ecuador violates international law and will have little or no impact on any potential enforcement action against the oil giant in countries around the world, said representatives of the plaintiffs. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 5:07 pm by Anthony B. Cavender
District Court for the Southern District of New York which found that a massive judgment obtained by the Ecuadorian plaintiffs against Chevron for alleged pollution in the Ecuadoran rain forest by Texaco many years ago was, in fact, procured by fraud. [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 12:26 pm by Howell and Christmas, LLC
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]
7 Mar 2012, 5:52 am by Jenna Greene
Chevron Suit: Powerful new evidence shows why courts around the world should reject efforts by U.S. plaintiffs’ lawyers to enforce a fraudulent $18.2 billion Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron, writes Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Theodore Boutrous Jr. in Forbes. [read post]
25 Jun 2012, 1:44 pm by WIMS
Patton Boggs LLP represents the plaintiffs and would like to continue to do so. [read post]
5 Feb 2011, 5:30 am by Ted Folkman
The Ecuadoran plaintiffs made an interesting argument of statutory construction. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 3:00 am by Louis M. Solomon
The Court articulated the law of veil piercing under New York law as: “Generally . . . piercing the corporate veil requires a showing that: (1) the owners exercised complete domination of the corporation in respect to the transaction attacked; and (2) that such domination was used to commit a fraud or wrong against the plaintiff which resulted in the plaintiff’s injury. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 2:20 pm by Itai Maytal
The Ecuadorian plaintiffs allege that the oil giant is liable for polluting waters in the Lago Agrio area and ask for up to $27 billion in damages and cleanup costs. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 2:20 pm by Itai Maytal
The Ecuadorian plaintiffs allege that the oil giant is liable for polluting waters in the Lago Agrio area and ask for up to $27 billion in damages and cleanup costs. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 3:00 am by Antonin Pribetic
” “Newly discovered facts” refers to facts which existed at the time the foreign judgment was obtained but were not known to the defendant” and could not have been discovered through the exercise of reasonable diligence. 7 Douglass Cassel’s Symposium post summarizes the nature of the fraud allegations raised by Chevron in the U.S. litigation as follows: As I have detailed elsewhere, the Ecuadorian proceedings amounted to a fraud in which some (not all) of… [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 8:12 am by Gilles Cuniberti
To resolve the dispute before us, we need only address whether the statutory scheme announced by New York’s Recognition Act allows the district court to declare the Ecuadorian judgment non-recognizable, or to enjoin plaintiffs from seeking to enforce that judgment. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 8:21 am by William A. Ruskin
Chevron further alleges that plaintiffs built their case through fabricated evidence and a campaign to incite public outrage. [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 4:19 pm by Kevin LaCroix
The plaintiffs, a group of Ecuadorians, won a $19 billion judgment in Ecuador against Chevron, but the oil company then “turned the tables” and persuaded a U.S. judge that the Ecuadorian suit involved coercion, bribery and fabricated evidence. [read post]