Chevron Became Terrified of Its Own Witnesses During Retaliatory RICO Trial

Looking back on Chevron’s retaliatory RICO trial, it is clear that the oil company’s lawyers were so terrified of some of their own witnesses that they literally ordered them to stay away from court.Remember Douglas Beltman and Ann Maest, the scientific consultants for the rainforest indigenous and farmer communities in Ecuador that were devastated...

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Prominent Organizations Release Open Letter Condemning Chevron's Tactics in Ecuador Case

Today, Amazon Watch—longtime advocates for the Ecuadorian indigenous and farmer communities affected by Chevron's toxic legacy—released a letter from a dozen prominent human rights and environmental organizations condemning Chevron's abusive tactics related to the Lago Agrio litigation. In addition to decrying the abusive nature of Chevron's scorched...

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After the Smoke Clears: What Chevron’s RICO Trial Means, With Hindsight

Now that the evidentiary phase of Chevron’s retaliatory RICO bench trial against New York human rights lawyer Steven Donziger and his Ecuadorian clients is over, we can take a deep breath and analyze what really happened before the controversial Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.  The answer is not much, other than one of the greatest abuses of the American...

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You Get What You Pay for (Perjury, in This Case)

Yesterday, the Huffington Post picked up a post originally published on Amazon Watch's Eye on the Amazon blog, written by Paul Paz y Miño, who spent a few weeks in Judge Kaplan's courtroom following Chevron's retaliatory...

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