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Lago Agrio: Chevron Seeks Leave To Sue Patton Boggs
Chevron has moved for leave to assert counterclaims against the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ US law firm, Patton Boggs. I have to say I think Chevron may have jumped the shark with this latest claim. I don’t want to go through the details of the counterclaim’s allegations, but let’s just take a look at the three……
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Et tu, Bogart?
A few days ago I reported on the settlement between Stratus Consulting and Chevron, and the Declaration of Douglas Beltman, one of the Stratus experts who aided the Lago Agrio plaintiffs in Ecuador. Chevron has done it again, filing a new settlement agreement with Burford Capital, the LAPs’ former litigation funder, and a new declaration……
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Lago Agrio: Magistrate Judge Recommends Dismissal of Donziger’s Counterclaims Against Chevron
Back in August, I reported on Donziger’s counterclaims against Chevron in the New York case. The magistrate judge has now recommended that Judge Kaplan dismiss the counterclaims in their entirety. Here was my description of the counterclaims for my prior post: Donziger begins with a retelling of the history of the Lago Agrio case from……
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Lago Agrio: The Beltman Declaration
I am skipping lunch today to find the time to post the declarations of the Stratus witnesses for you to read because when I took a quick look, I simply could not believe what I was reading. Let’s start with Douglas Beltman, the Executive VP of Stratus and one of its founders, who was in……
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Lago Agrio: Stratus Consulting Turns On Donziger
Update: I have updated the post to include a statement from Craig Smyser, one of the Ecuadoran plaintiffs’ lawyers. I had a nice post scheduled for next week explaining the recent settlement between Chevron and Stratus Consulting, and in particular to speculate on the importance of the cooperation clauses in the settlement agreement: Stratus agreed……