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Lago Agrio Update
I have not been writing about the remnants of the Lago Agrio case. Mostly that’s because the issues that got me interested in the case in the first place—the judgment recognition issues and the § 1782 issues—are over and done, but it’s also because I am sad about how things turned out for Steven Donziger……
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Lago Agrio: Supreme Court of Canada Denies Ecuadorans’ Application for Leave to Appeal
Yesterday the Supreme Court of Canada denied an application by the Lago Agrio plaintiffs for leave to appeal from the decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in May 2018, which held that the Lago Agrio plaintiffs cannot reach the assets of Chevron’s indirect subsidiary in Canada to satisfy the judgment against Chevron they obtained……
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Lago Agrio: Another Turncoat
Chevron has filed some voluminous papers in support of a new motion to hold Steven Donziger in contempt of court. I’m not going to write about the issue yet, because Donziger hasn’t responded and in light of all the redactions it’s hard to know whether there’s anything really interesting. But the metadata here tell a……
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Lago Agrio: The Mystery Of Amazonia
Amazonia Recovery Ltd. was a Gibraltar company set up to hold the proceeds of the Lago Agrio judgment, or maybe the judgment itself. As I’ve reported previously, Chevron obtained a default judgment against the firm in Gibraltar, and in the New York RICO case, the final judgment required Steven Donziger, the LAPs’ American lawyer, to……
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“Facts are Created”
One of Chevron’s gotcha moments in the Crude outtakes is the clip of Steven Donziger speaking with members of his litigation team. “Facts don’t exist,” he said, “facts are created.” I draw a few lessons from this clip. The first, of course, is “Don’t ever travel with a film crew.” The second is a little more serious……