Tag: Lago Agrio

  • More About Chevron’s Google Subpoena

    Not too long ago we saw the results of Chevron’s Google subpoena that requested information about the gmail account of law professor, blogger, and Chevron critic Kevin Jon Heller. It was clear that there were other targets out there and that Chevron had sought IP logs and other information about other email users from Google……

  • Breaking: Supreme Court Denies Cert. in Naranjo

    Today the Supreme Court denied Chevron’s petition for a writ of certiorari in Chevron v. Naranjo, the case in which the Second Circuit had vacated Judge Kaplan’s preliminary injunction barring efforts at obtaining recognition and enforcement of the Lago Agrio judgment. The Second Circuit’s decision rested on what I think was a questionable basis, namely,……

  • Update on the Heller Subpoena

    In a new article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Chevron suggests that it subpoenaed Kevin Jon Heller’s gmail account because it didn’t believe that the account belonged to him. This hardly seems credible—Chevron could simply have asked Heller, or it could have done five minutes of googling. I want to clear up a misconception that……

  • Lago Agrio: The Heller Subpoena

    As I reported on Wednesday, Chevron issued a subpoena to blogger Kevin Jon Heller of Opinio Juris, who has been highly critical of Chevron in the Lago Agrio litigation. Heller had some back-and-forth with Chevron advocate (and Letters Blogatory contributor) Doug Cassel and his fellow bloggers Roger Alford and Kenneth Anderson in the comments to……

  • Breaking: Chevron Subpoenas Kevin Jon Heller, Then Withdraws Subpoena

    Oh no you didn’t, Chevron. According to my impeccable sources, Chevron served a subpoena on Opinio Juris blogger Kevin Jon Heller, who has been highly critical of Chevron’s position in the Lago Agrio case, and then withdrew the subpoena when the ACLU came to Heller’s defense. Here was my initial reaction, which I thought was……