Chevron on the Attack: The $19 Billion Trial of the Year Starts Today

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Barrett, Paul M. [2013], “Chevron on the Attack: The $19 Billion Trial of the Year Starts Today”, Business Week, New York, 15 de octubre, http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-10-14/chevron-on-the-attack-th...

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Business Week
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Martes, Octubre 15, 2013
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Chevron's civil-racketeering lawsuit against plaintiffs' lawyer Steven Donziger merits at the very least the "trial of the year" title, as far as corporate legal combat goes. Chevron is accusing Donziger of masterminding a conspiracy that culminated in Feb 2011 in a $19 billion verdict against the San Ramon (CA)-based energy giant. As a month or more of fierce litigation commences, people pretty much know how it's going to end. US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is holding a "bench trial," without a jury, is going to find Donziger culpable for one or another of several flavors of fraud. The Donziger team is going to use the Ecuadorian proceedings before Kaplan to try to create a record showing that, however outrageous Donziger's tactics may seem, they were par for the course in Ecuador -- and that Chevron played by the same fast-and-loose rules.