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Chevron's RICO Victory Provides a Model for Other Companies

Enviado por Mariela en Lun, 10/19/2015 - 16:10
Cita: 

Barrett, Paul M. [2014], “Chevron's RICO Victory Provides a Model for Other Companies”, Business Week, New York, 05 de marzo, http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-03-05/chevrons-rico-victory-pr... [1]

Fuente: 
Business Week
Fecha de publicación: 
Miércoles, Marzo 5, 2014
Idea principal: 

For several years, corporate defense lawyers and lobbyists have watched Chevron's experiment with using the federal anti-racketeering statute as an aggressive response to mass-liability lawsuits. Now the results are in -- a major victory for the oil company in federal court in New York -- and business advocates predict other corporations will follow suit. US District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled on Tuesday that a multibillion pollution judgment against Chevron in 2011 by a rainforest court in Ecuador was obtained by means of fabricated evidence, bribery, and other acts violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Kaplan named Steven Donziger, a New York plaintiffs' lawyer, as the mastermind of a legal campaign that began in 1993 and over two decades evolved into an elaborate shakedown scheme. Donziger has denied wrongdoing and vowed to appeal.


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[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-03-05/chevrons-rico-victory-provides-a-model-for-other-companies