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Lago Agrio: Judge Guerra’s Testimony
Today Chevron filed the witness statement of Judge Alberto Guerra Bastidas, a star witness if not the star witness of Chevron’s case. Judge Guerra retells the story we have already seen of the ghostwriting, the bribes, and so forth. Guerra retells the story of his ghostwriting relationship with Judge Zambrano, Donziger’s involvement, the payments from……
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Response to Noel Doran
Belfast Project protagonist Anthony McIntyre responds to Noel Doran’s post criticizing McIntyre’s blog, The Pensive Quill. Just a note on this piece: folks who have been following the discussion will know that one of the issues that has cropped up is the supposed difference in ‘tone’ between this blog and TPQ. I think there is……
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Lago Agrio: What Goes Around Comes Around
Although all eyes are on the RICO case in Judge Kaplan’s court, other bits and pieces of the Lago Agrio case are proceeding in courts and arbitral tribunals around the world. One particularly interesting piece of the case is the case of the Huaorani people against Steven Donziger, which I’ve covered before. Very briefly: in……
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Lots of Lago Agrio Action
As trial approaches, there were several developments in the Chevron case in New York yesterday: Sanctions. The judge, on Chevron’s motion, has sanctioned Donziger and the LAPs for failure to comply with his discovery orders with respect to documents in Ecuador. This is a very strong and very long opinion, and I am not going……
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Chevron, Lobbying, and Lago Agrio
Did Chevron lobby the State Department regarding the contents of the Ecuador Human Rights Report during the Lago Agrio litigation? Yes. Did the lobbying have an appreciable effect on the content of the report as it relates to Ecuador’s judicial system? Maybe. These are the big-picture conclusions we can draw from the first group of……