New York -- A panel of prominent international trial monitors, including former U.S. ambassador Stephen Rapp, is demanding the U.S. government launch an independent investigation into federal Judges Lewis Kaplan and Loretta Preska for violating the fair trial rights of U.S. human rights attorney Steven Donziger and detaining him illegally for almost three years after he won a large pollution judgement against Chevron.
Read MoreCambridge, MA – Today members of Law Students For Climate Accountability (LSCA) launched a nationwide call for law students to boycott the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. In a public sign-on letter and a video announcement, students described the boycott as a response to Gibson Dunn’s work shielding corporate polluters from climate accountability, attacking the rights of Indigenous communities, and persecuting human rights lawyer Steven Donziger, whose imprisonment is a direct result of the firm’s unethical and bullying litigation strategies.
Read MoreGeneva (Sept. 29) – The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights – the top human rights legal body in the world -- has issued a stunning ruling in favor of U.S. human rights attorney Steven Donziger on the eve of his sentencing on a highly controversial criminal contempt charge filed after he won a $9.5 billion pollution judgement against Chevron on behalf of Amazon Indigenous groups.
Read MoreStudents from 55 U.S. law schools have signed a letter to U.S. Attorney General demanding the DOJ review Chevron-tainted prosecution of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger
Read MoreNew York, NY — Dozens of Nobel Laureates are demanding the U.S. Department of Justice immediately intervene and block the controversial misdemeanor contempt prosecution of U.S. human rights attorney Steven Donziger by a private Chevron law firm appointed by a judge with investments in Chevron. Donziger was the lead lawyer on a pollution case that resulted in a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron in Ecuador, prompting the company to launch a “demonize Donziger” campaign.
Read MoreWashington, DC – Six members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus have sent an urgent letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, urging that the Department of Justice reassert jurisdiction over and immediately review the case of famed human rights attorney Steven Donziger who faces trial on May 10th in the Southern District of New York on a misdemeanor contempt charge that has resulted in him enduring over 600-days of house arrest.
Read MoreNew York – Lawyers for human rights attorney Steven Donziger today moved to dismiss his unprecedented criminal contempt case as an improper “vindictive prosecution” orchestrated by Chevron to help the oil giant evade a $9.5 billion pollution judgement owed to Indigenous communities in Ecuador.
Read MoreNew York – In a shocking decision, a New York appellate today refused again to release U.S. human rights lawyer Steven Donziger even though he has been imprisoned at home for almost two years on a misdemeanor charge where the maximum ever imposed on a lawyer is only 90 days of home confinement.
Read MoreNew York -- In a major rebuke to Chevron and controversial U.S. trial judge Lewis A. Kaplan, a New York appeals court today threw out a key contempt finding against human rights attorney Steven Donziger that had been used to fine him millions of dollars in court costs and led to criminal contempt charges that resulted in an unprecedented 19-month house arrest without trial.
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