Chevron has filed its opposition to Steven Donziger’s motion asking the court to take judicial notice of Judge Guerra’s testimony in the BIT arbitration.

As predicted, Steven Donziger has brought the recently disclosed Guerra testimony to the Second Circuit’s attention. He did so by way of a motion asking the court to take judicial notice of the testimony. What does that mean? Donziger is not asking the court to make any findings about the truth of falseness of Guerra’s……

The transcripts of the Track 2 hearings in the Lago Agrio BIT arbitration have now been made public. In this post I want to focus on the proceedings of April 23 and 24, namely, the cross-examination of Alberto Guerra Bastidas. Guerra, recall, was one of Chevron’s key witnesses—maybe the key witness if you had to……

I do not have an update for you on the BIT Tribunal’s visits to several sites in the Oriente, which I briefly covered on October 19. The reason I don’t have an update is the same reason, more or less, I copped out on the Louis Berger Group report. On the one hand, it seems……

The tribunal hearing the BIT dispute between Ecuador and Chevron has made site visits to three sites in the Ecuadoran Amazon. The tribunal, along with the lawyers and experts for both sides, visited the Aguarico 6, Lago Agrio 2, and Shushufindi 34 sites. You can follow the links to read copies of the transcript of……