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Breaking: Judge Zambrano “Dismissed”
The Washington Post is reporting that Judge Nicolás Zambrano, the Ecuadoran judge who issued the $18 billion dollar judgment against Chevron, has been “dismissed for improperly freeing an alleged drug trafficker.” Ecuador’s Board of Judges found Zambrano “either deceitful or grossly negligent” in his handling of a case in 2009, when he and another judge……
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Chevron Seeks Summary Judgment
Chevron has filed a motion for partial summary judgment in the RICO case against the Lago Agrio plaintiffs and their lawyers. In a nutshell, the claim in the case was that the defendants took part in the supposed corruption in Ecuador that led to Ecuador’s judgment against Chevron. Those of the defendants who appeared in……
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Keep It Classy, Chevron
I am not a partisan in the Chevron/Ecuador case, and having read a lot of the papers filed in the various proceedings, I can say that I admire the work the lawyers on both sides of the cases (I should really say the three sides of the cases, as Ecuador itself is a party to……
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ABA Resolves To Encourage US Courts To Respect Foreign Privacy and Data Protection Laws
At its recent meeting, the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association passed a resolution regarding respect for foreign blocking statutes and data protection laws in pretrial discovery in US civil actions. The resolution reads: RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges that, where possible in the context of the proceedings before them, U.S.……
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Lago Agrio: A Quick Overview
Let’s take stock of where things stand in the Chevron/Ecuador saga. In this post, I try to review the main fronts of the battle, leaving subsidiary issues (such as the judicial assistance applications, which were what first got me interested in the case) to the side. Is the judgment final and conclusive in Ecuador? The……