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Keeping your adversary's environmental expert honest

  • Epstein Becker Green
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  • Ecuador, USA
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  • April 16 2013

Law 360 reported on April 12, 2013 that Steven Donziger, counsel for the indigenous Ecuadorians known as the Lago Agrio plaintiffs, "meddled" in the

Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act - Second Circuit dismisses injunction proceedings based on New York's Uniform Foreign Country Money-Judgments Recognition Act

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Ecuador, USA
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  • March 27 2012

Citizens of Ecuador residing in the Lago Agrio region ("Lago Agrio Plaintiffs") filed a lawsuit in Ecuador which claimed that the predecessor of Chevron damaged the environment in which they lived from 1964 through 1992

Federal court enjoins enforcement of Ecuadoran court’s $18 billion judgment

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Ecuador, USA
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  • March 18 2011

A federal court in New York has granted a motion for a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of an Ecuadoran court's $18 billion judgment against Chevron Corp

Assertion of privilege in Section 1782 proceedings to collect evidence in the U.S. for use before a foreign tribunal: lessons from Chevron

  • Blank Rome LLP
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  • Ecuador, USA
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  • March 9 2011

In February, an Ecuadorean court order ed Chevron Corp. to pay Ecuadorean plaintiffs some $8.6 billion in compensation relating to alleged environmental damage in the Amazon rain forest

Ecuadorian court finds Chevron liable for $8.6 billion

  • Lewis and Roca LLP
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  • Ecuador, USA
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  • February 16 2011

On Monday, a trial court in Ecuador handed down what may be the largest environmental damages award in history: $8.6 billion against California-based Chevron Corp

US courts order discovery for use overseas in Chevron-Ecuador disputes

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • Ecuador, USA
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  • December 8 2010

A high profile and complex dispute involving a group of Ecuadorian residents, Chevron Corporation and the Republic of Ecuador is forcing courts and the media to focus on an arcane provision of federal law that authorizes federal courts in the United States to order testimony or the production of documents for use in a foreign or international tribunal

Chevron files new BIT claim against Ecuador in long-running environmental dispute

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • Ecuador, Global, USA
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  • January 20 2010

In late September 2009, Chevron filed an arbitration against Ecuador before the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague alleging breaches of the US-Ecuador bilateral investment treaty (BIT