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Lago Agrio: Zambrano Strikes Back
Friday’s post was ill-timed. I wrote about the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ responses to the Guerra Declaration, little knowing that on April 4 the Lago Agrio plaintiffs had filed what I have long been hoping they would file: a declaration from Judge Nicolás Zambrano Lozada, the target of Guerra’s main accusations of judicial corruption. Here are……
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Lago Agrio: Judge Kaplan Orders Patton Boggs To Produce Documents
Judge Kaplan has issued a significant decision in the RICO case against Steven Donziger and the Lago Agrio plaintiffs. The decision orders the Ecuadorans’ US law firm, Patton Boggs, to produce documents in response to a subpoena, subject to privilege claims much narrower than the claims Patton Boggs argued it was entitled to make. The……
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Lago Agrio: Cards On The Table
I have been hearing criticism off-line about the editorial slant of my coverage of the Lago Agrio case (though nothing compared to the drubbing I took from unsuccessful litigants in the Belfast Project case). Why has my coverage become so favorable to Chevron, and so unfavorable to the Lago Agrio plaintiffs? I figure it’s time……
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Steven Donziger Has A Fraud Problem
Steven Donziger has a problem. The problem is not necessarily that he committed fraud (though maybe he did if Chevron is right). The problem is that people who should be his allies are accusing him of fraud. We have already seen the Reyes Declaration and the Calmbacher deposition, as well as the case brought by……
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Case of the Day: Chevron Corp. v. Donziger
The case of the day is Chevron Corp. v. Donziger (S.D.N.Y. 2012). As we know, Chevron waged a discovery campaign across the United States that led to a lot of juicy evidence that Chevron has used in its battles with Steven Donziger and the Lago Agrio plaintiffs. The LAPs have also sought US discovery. In……