New York – Human rights defender Steven Donziger today criticized another SLAPP-style move by U.S. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to try to insulate Chevron from the $12 billion Ecuador pollution judgment by holding him in “criminal contempt” for refusing to turn over his personal computer and cell phone to the company during ongoing civil enforcement proceedings.
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TORONTO - Indigenous peoples and rainforest villagers from the Amazon Defense Coalition of Ecuador (FDA), the grass roots coalition trying to recover a historic $12 billion environmental judgment against Chevron, are scheduled to arrive in Toronto this weekend with the support of the Canadian Assembly of First Nations (AFN) for a four-day tour that will include a critical court hearing in Ontario that could re-shape indigenous rights and corporate law throughout the world.
Read MoreNEW YORK - Although Chevron refuses to pay a historic $12b environmental judgment for polluting the Amazon, the oil giant is now trying to force Ecuadorian rainforest inhabitants who live in communities devastated by the company’s toxic waste to turn over $837,000 – and possibly as much as $32 million -- for costs and legal fees associated with its discredited retaliatory “racketeering” case in the United States.
Read MoreTORONTO - After losing three consecutive appellate court decisions in Canada, Chevron faces significant new risk ahead of a critical court hearing next month in Toronto where it hopes to avoid a high-risk trial on enforcement of the $12 billion Ecuador environmental judgment.
Read MoreTORONTO - Ecuador rainforest communities trying to seize Chevron assets in Canada to enforce their $9.5 billion pollution judgment say they are “extremely concerned” that the oil giant is undermining the rule of law by selling off critical assets prior to a major court hearing in Ontario where the company faces the possible collapse of its main defense.
Read MoreNEW YORK - A little-noticed ruling in late February by controversial U.S. federal judge Lewis A. Kaplan in Chevron’s $9.5 billion Ecuador pollution case already is damaging the judge’s personal credibility and backfiring against the oil giant in Canada where rainforest villagers are attempting to seize company assets to pay for a court-ordered environmental clean-up, according to statements issued by the communities and their U.S. legal representative.
Read MoreCAMBRIDGE, MA - New York human rights attorney Steven Donziger – long considered a leading public enemy of the oil and gas industry – is slated to speak to students at Harvard Law School Tuesday about the historic environmental judgment won by Ecuadorian indigenous peoples and farmer communities against Chevron and the company’s attempt to retaliate by deploying 60 law firms to target adversary counsel.
Read MoreNEW YORK - Faced with a series of stunning legal setbacks in the world’s largest environmental case, Chevron is now trying to orchestrate what appears to be a politically-motivated disbarment of American human rights lawyer Steven Donziger after he helped indigenous and farmer communities win a $9.5 billion judgment against the company over the dumping of billions of gallons of toxic oil waste onto ancestral lands in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest.
Read MoreNEW YORK, - Chevron secretly paid at least $245,000 – and likely well over $1 million – by transferring funds to the private account of a court official who made pivotal decisions in favor of the oil giant during the lead-up to its now-discredited civil “racketeering” case against Ecuadorian indigenous villagers, according to new evidence recently produced as part of a court order.
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