Can 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 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 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 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–...
View ArticleAnti-SLAPP Coalition Files Amicus Brief in Donziger Case
[ Press release here. Amicus brief here. ] Washington, DC – Late last night, ten leading civil rights, human rights, and environmental organizations – members of the national coalition challenging...
View ArticleCLDC Press Release re Mandamus Petition in Donziger case
Judge-appointed Private Prosecutor Has Deep Ties to Chevron; Retaliatory Lawsuit Against Attorney Steven Donziger Must Be Dismissed By Lauren Regan|June 30th, 2020 Eugene, OR – Attorneys for human...
View ArticleIADL and NLG file amicus brief in Donziger case
[ Press release here. Amicus brief here. ] An amicus brief was filed today by the National Lawyers Guild and International Association of Democratic Lawyers in the Second Circuit on behalf of human...
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...
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