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Lago Agrio: Did The Plaintiffs Buy the Judgment?
In responding to the Declaration of former Ecuadorian Judge Alberto Guerra—who claims to have taken thousands of dollars from the plaintiffs to fix the outcome in the Lago Agrio litigation against Chevron—Ted Folkman is judicious. While reporting Guerra’s allegations and crediting Chevron’s lawyers for ferreting them out, Ted’s first reaction is that “I don’t trust……
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BREAKING: Argentine Appellate Court Upholds Chevron Asset Freeze In the Lago Agrio Case
According to Enrique Bruchou, a lawyer for the Lago Agrio plaintiffs quoted by Reuters, an Argentine appellate court has upheld a lower court’s order freezing the assets of Chevron affiliates in Argentina. As I reported in November, a judge in Buenos Aires, acting under the Inter-American Convention on Execution of Preventive Measures, had issued an……
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MaestroMastro: Chevron’s Legal Team Hits A Home RunEarlier today, Chevron filed a Declaration by Alberto Guerra Bastidas, an Ecuadoran judge, that tells a seriously juicy story of judicial corruption in Ecuador. By his own admission, Judge Guerra allowed the claim against Chevron to go forward in 2003 and 2004 because of “public pressure brought to bear by the representatives of the Plaintiffs.”……
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Lago Agrio: Huaorani Intervention Denied
Judge Kaplan has denied the motion of the Huaorani for leave to intervene in Chevron’s RICO action. The Huaorani are a group of Lago Agrio plaintiffs who claim that Donziger and his team had wrongfully represented to the Ecuadoran court that they represented the interests of all Lago Agrio plaintiffs, when in fact they had……
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Lago Agrio: The New Erion Report
The Lago Agrio plaintiffs have published a new report by Graham Erion, the Canadian lawyer who has previously taken Chevron to task over the sufficiency of its disclosures to investors regarding the Ecuador litigation. The new report is a revised and expanded verison of the old. Now there are important new angles for Erion to……