Chevron goes to trial in New York over $18 billion Ecuador award
Source: Reuters
Chevron goes to trial in New York over $18 billion Ecuador award
By Bernard Vaughan
NEW YORK | Mon Oct 14, 2013 7:15am EDT
(Reuters) - Chevron Corp will try to convince a U.S. judge this week that a group of Ecuadorean villagers and their U.S. lawyer used bribery to win an $18 billion judgment against Chevron from a court in Ecuador, in the latest chapter in a long-running fight over pollution in the Amazon jungle.
In a trial starting Tuesday, the oil company is asking a federal court in New York to prevent the villagers and their Harvard-educated lawyer, Steven Donziger, from using U.S. courts to enforce the Ecuadorean judgment.
A victory in the United States would likely help Chevron's defense in other countries where Donziger and the villagers may seek to enforce the judgment.
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Donziger and the villagers say they did nothing wrong in obtaining the judgment, and they accuse the judge in the U.S. case, District Judge Lewis Kaplan, of bias against them.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/14/us-chevron-ecuador-preview-idUSBRE99D07620131014
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> Chevron Corp will try to convince a U.S. judge this week that a group of Ecuadorean villagers
> and their U.S. lawyer used bribery to win an $18 billion judgement against Chevron from a court
Given that "bribery" is standard operating procedure for Chevron (+ Exxon + Shell + BP + everyone
else at that level), it's a bit rich for the scum to complain that their usual bribery & intimidation
didn't work this time ...
