Donziger, Ecuadorians File Emergency Motion to Stay Judge Kaplan’s RICO Decision
Reprinted from ChevronToxico New York, NY – Saying the decision in Chevron’s RICO case is without legal precedent, New York Attorney Steven Donziger and two Ecuadorian villagers today filed papers with...
View ArticleUnder Fire, Chevron CEO Quietly Moves Annual Shareholder Meeting to Remote...
Reprinted from The Chevron Pit Chevron CEO John Watson seems nervous about the Ecuadorian villagers who won a $9.5 billion judgment against his company for dumping toxic waste into the rainforest....
View ArticleChevron: Release The Secret Evidence That Proves Your Guilt In Ecuador
Reprinted from The Huffington Post: In the wake of a controversial U.S. court ruling that a $9.5 billion Ecuador judgment against Chevron is fraudulent, the oil giant has been touting loudly its...
View ArticleFootnote 19 / “I got it from the beginning”
Chevron recently filed its responsive brief in the appeal of its infamous civil RICO case, the retaliatory lawsuit that the oil giant filed against its Ecuadorian victims and their lawyers in U.S....
View ArticleCracks In Chevron’s “Fight On The Ice” Strategy
Nearly a decade ago, Chevron Corporation issued a public statement warning the Ecuadorian communities who were plaintiffs in a massive environmental case against the company in Ecuador that they would...
View ArticleLast blog up on HuffPo
Under the title “Chevron’s ‘Fight It Out On The Ice’ Strategy For Ecuador Case Is Slipping, Fast.” First in a series of posts in the coming weeks, ahead of the Apr. 20 oral argument on Chevron’s RICO...
View ArticleNow we may perhaps to begin, yes?
[ Reprinted from CSRwire ] Canada Supreme Court To Decide Friday Whether Chevron Assets Can Be Targeted by Ecuadorian Villagers OTTAWA, Sep. 02 /CSRwire/ – In a decision that could have important...
View ArticleWhat’s Chevron’s Ecuador Play in Canada?
The big news in the ever-ongoing Chevron/Ecuador dispute is the recent decision by the Supreme Court of Canada rejecting Chevron’s ultra-preliminary attack on the Ecuadorian communities’ ability to...
View ArticleEndless Litigation Dept. (cont.)
As has been recently reported (Vice, Courthouse News) the arbitral tribunal hearing Chevron’s baseless “denial of justice” claim against the Republic of Ecuador (through which Chevron hopes to put...
View ArticleChevron’s Massive Pollution In Ecuador Frames Death of Legendary Nurse Rosa...
Reprinted from The Chevron Pit Rosa Moreno, the legendary nurse in Ecuador who spent three decades treating children and others afflicted with cancer in the area of Chevron’s oil pollution in the...
View ArticleCan Chevron avoid paying clean-up costs by hiding behind shell companies?
[ Re-posted from The Huffington Post ] Everybody knows that you bury a bad news story by putting it out late on Friday afternoon. If it’s really bad, you might look for a Friday afternoon that is also...
View ArticleWill the Supreme Court to Strike Down Chevron’s Facially Corrupt RICO Case?
[ Also up on HuffPost ] Okay folks, the briefs are in. (And online, except Chevron’s opposition, which I’ve seen but which Chevron seems to be hiding from the internet.) Our side will still file a...
View ArticleThe “Vengeance Phase” of Chevron’s RICO Strategy: Human Rights Supporters...
[ Also up on HuffPost ] With news that Chevron is aggressively pursuing a $32 million claim against human rights attorney and activist Steven Donziger, it appears we are entering perhaps the ugliest...
View ArticleRenowned Aboriginal Rights Lawyer Peter Grant Joining Case Against Chevron on...
TORONTO, Oct. 10 /CSRwire/ – Peter Grant, the renowned Canadian aboriginal rights lawyer who recently helped to win a major case before the country’s Supreme Court, is joining the legal team of...
View ArticleIN CANADA, CHEVRON TRYING TO BLOCK ECUADORIANS FROM USING U.N. DECLARATION TO...
[ From TheFirstNationsCanada.com ] In a Canadian court, Chevron is trying to block submission of a legal brief over how the company’s attempt to evade paying a $9.5 billion environmental judgment in...
View ArticleCanadian courts re-emerge from the Land of Make Believe – Just in time…
Great news today, except that the progress it represents is only the reversal of a terrible and unjust turn of events that never should have happened in the first place. Canadian courts have been...
View ArticleMaterially misleading?
An Argentine trial court yesterday declined to continue the recognition action on the Ecuadorian judgment, largely for the same reasons as the Canadian trial judge in 2013 (reasons that were later...
View ArticleEcuadorian Constitutional Court Affirms Environmental Judgment Against Chevron
More on this to come (hopefully elaborated in other forums and venues) but here is the decision (in Spanish) and here are the basic parameters: This is the fourth Ecuadorian court to uphold the...
View ArticleSimon Taylor blog / Responding to SLAPPs (Part I)
Simon Taylor, Co-founder and Director of Global Witness and winner of the Skoll Award among others, has an unflinching blog on up on the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre on Chevron’s vicious...
View ArticleBack to Basics: Revisiting Chevron’s abandoned oil fields in Ecuador — and...
A new documentary largely successfully avoids the infinite distractions generated by Chevron’s colossal retaliatory litigation campaign and re-focuses back on what happened–and what is happening today–...
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