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Lago Agrio: Judge Kaplan Denies Patton Boggs’s Motion to Strike the Bogart Declaration
Back in April I reported on a declaration by Christopher Bogart, the CEO of the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ former litigation funder, Burford Capital. As I wrote in a later post, the declaration “basically threw Patton Boggs under the bus by claiming that the law firm had persuaded Burford to invest in the litigation by defending…
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Lago Agrio: Ontario Superior Court Rules LAPs Cannot Execute The Ecuadorian Judgment In Canada
As expected, the Ontario Superior Court has rejected the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ attempt to seize the assets of an indirect Chevron subsidiary, Chevron Canada Ltd., to satisfy the multi-billion dollar judgment they obtained against the ultimate parent, Chevron Corp., in Ecuador. The court found no basis on which the assets of the indirect subsidiary could…
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Lago Agrio: Court Holds Donziger Liable For More Than $800,000 In Costs
One of the worst things about losing a civil action is that your victorious opponent can seek to recover its costs. Talk about being kicked when you’re down! In the United States, unlike in many other jurisdictions, “costs” do not include attorney’s fees. In general, each side bears its own lawyer’s fees. But you can…
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Chevron Wins. What Now?
In this, the first of a series of responses to the RICO judgment in Chevron v. Donziger by representatives or allies of the protagonists, Chevron advocate Doug Cassel takes a victory lap and, in the last paragraph, holds out an olive branch. Two starkly differing narratives compete to explain the Lago Agrio environmental lawsuit against…
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Let’s Focus on the Real Issues
Letters Blogatory welcomes Nathalie Cely Suárez, Ecuador’s ambassador in Washington, who gives the Ecuadoran government’s perspective on Judge Kaplan’s decision. This is the second in today’s series of reactions to the Chevron decision from the protagonists. I invited Steven Donziger and his team to participate, but I did not receive their submission by my deadline.…