Appeals Court Asks Judge Kaplan To Defend Bizarre Rulings In Ecuador Pollution Case

Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan’s actions in Chevron’s efforts to evade a $19 billion adverse judgment for toxic dumping in Ecuador has caught the attention of a New York appellate court. In a move that has raised eyebrows...

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Recent Decisions On the $19b Ecuador Judgment Do Little to Decrease Chevron’s Enormous Risk

For indigenous and farmer communities, the fight continues Supporters of the heroic two-decade effort to hold Chevron accountable for its indisputable toxic dumping and destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador should not despair over recent court rulings that have slowed the seizing of the oil giant’s assets in Argentina and Canada. The fight...

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Forget WallyWorld, at Chevron They Live in WatsonWorld

Reposted from Eye on the Amazon, May 31, 2013  There are many ways to describe the experience of participating in a Chevron Annual Shareholder Meeting. One is often left wondering if those inside are as completely divorced from reality as their words suggest, or if they are just putting on a show for a room full of cardboard cut outs of corporate...

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Federal Judge Asked To Stay Case Over $19 Billion Ecuador Judgment

A New York federal judge long accused of bias against Ecuadorian rainforest residents over a $19B pollution case is continuing to allow Chevron to “systematically harass” two victims of its toxic pollution and their long-time New York lawyer, according to new motions filed in recent days. The lawyer, Steven R. Donziger, asked Judge Lewis A. Kaplan...

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