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Related: About this forumFYI, Chevron opinion issued today. 100% victory for Chevron
[T]he Court finds that Donziger began his involvement in this controversy with a desire to improve conditions in the area in which his Ecuadorian clients live. To be sure, he sought also to do well for himself while doing good for others, but there was nothing wrong with that. In the end, however, he and the Ecuadorian lawyers he led corrupted the Lago Agrio case. They submitted fraudulent evidence. They coerced one judge, first to use a court-appointed, supposedly impartial, global expert to make an overall damages assessment and, then, to appoint to that important role a man whom Donziger hand-picked and paid to totally play ball with the LAPs. They then paid a Colorado consulting firm secretly to write all or most of the global experts report, falsely presented the report as the work of the court-appointed and supposedly impartial expert, and told half-truths or worse to U.S. courts in attempts to prevent exposure of that and other wrongdoing. Ultimately, the LAP team wrote the Lago Agrio courts Judgment themselves and promised $500,000 to the Ecuadorian judge to rule in their favor and sign their judgment. If ever there were a case warranting equitable relief with respect to a judgment procured by fraud, this is it.
http://sdnyblog.com/in-trial-win-for-chevron-judge-kaplan-tells-donzinger-it-is-time-to-face-the-facts/
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FYI, Chevron opinion issued today. 100% victory for Chevron (Original Post)
Paolo123
Mar 2014
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kicking big news. You know they may have had a legitimate case but for the corruption
Bacchus4.0
Mar 2014
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Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)1. sounds like the fishing expedition has ended
Looks like the Ecuadorian government is going to have to take responsibility for the clean up and welfare of the inhabitants.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)2. kicking big news. You know they may have had a legitimate case but for the corruption
Now is Ecuador actually going to address the environmental contamination in their country? Its ultimately their responsibility.