Comments on: Lago Agrio: The Cabrera Report—Mystery Solved

By: Lago Agrio: Supreme Court of Canada Denies Ecuadorans’ Application for Leave to Appeal | Letters Blogatory

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:09:48 +0000

[…] was in fact not independent at all, despite the protestations of Donzgier’s team. Indeed, the plaintiffs’ team wrote Cabrera’s report. (Donziger’s claim is that this was permissible under Ecuadoran law). The report’s true […]

By: Lago Agrio: Steven Donziger Indefinitely Suspended From The Practice of Law | Letters Blogatory | Letters Blogatory

Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:13:06 +0000

[…] I suggested previously that perhaps the New York disciplinary authorities should wait for the dust to settle before acting, but that’s not to say that a court shouldn’t apply the ordinary rules of preclusion once the disciplinary body brings the case to the court, and in any case I think that whatever the merits of Donziger’s view on the ghostwriting claim, he has much weaker chances on the other main factual points, for example the issues concerning the supposedly independent Cabrera report. […]

By: Lago Agrio: The LAPs Approach The Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders | Letters Blogatory | Letters Blogatory

Mon, 07 May 2018 02:06:35 +0000

[…] Chevron did succeed in proving a significant fraud in the Ecuadoran proceedings, namely, the ghostwritten Cabrera report. Longtime readers know that I don’t think Chevron proved what it thinks it proved about the […]

By: Lago Agrio: Oral Argument At The Second Circuit (And A Special Letters Blogatory Backgrounder) | Letters Blogatory

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:15:29 +0000

By: Lago Agrio: My Visit to Aguarico 4 | Letters Blogatory

Lago Agrio: My Visit to Aguarico 4 | Letters Blogatory — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 10:01:39 +0000

[…] at Agrarico 4 and several other sites be stopped so as not to impede his inspections. Since we know that the plaintifs’ team ghostwrote Cabrera’s report, the implication is that they […]

By: Lago Agrio: The Donziger Brief | Letters Blogatory

Lago Agrio: The Donziger Brief | Letters Blogatory — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 17:16:15 +0000

[…] Donziger would not have fought the issue so strenuously for so long. In prior posts, I’ve given reasons for thinking that Donziger acted wrongly here. The circumstances surrounding the Calmbacher report […]

By: Lago Agrio: Judge Kaplan Denies Patton Boggs’s Motion to Strike the Bogart Declaration | Letters Blogatory

Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:29:16 +0000

[…] by claiming that the law firm had persuaded Burford to invest in the litigation by defending the supposedly independent Cabrera report.” Patton Boggs moved to strike the declaration. Its first motion was redacted in significant […]

By: Lago Agrio: Chevron Seeks Leave To Sue Patton Boggs | Letters Blogatory

Lago Agrio: Chevron Seeks Leave To Sue Patton Boggs | Letters Blogatory — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:17:44 +0000

[…] report. But Chevron doesn’t seem to be saying that Patton Boggs itself was involved in the ghostwriting of the Cabrera report. Take a look at ¶¶ 88 and 89, which seem to distinguish very carefully between “the […]

By: Lago Agrio: Cards On The Table | Letters Blogatory

Lago Agrio: Cards On The Table | Letters Blogatory — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:48:04 +0000

[…] and egregiously in Ecuador. The key examples, which I have focused on in my coverage, are the Cabrerra and Calmbacher reports. The new allegations from Judge Guerra are also highly troubling, though I […]

By: Steven Donziger Has A Fraud Problem | Letters Blogatory

Steven Donziger Has A Fraud Problem | Letters Blogatory — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:02:02 +0000

[…] people who should be his allies are accusing him of fraud or other bad acts. We have already seen the Reyes Declaration and the Calmbacher deposition, and we have seen a group of Huaorani, plaintiffs whom Donziger […]