Legal Opinion
Chevron Corp. v. Donziger
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 9, 2011No. 11 Civ. 0691 (LAK)PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
LEWIS A. KAPLAN, District Judge.
The so-called Lago Agrio plaintiffs 1 (the “LAPs”) recently obtained a multibillion dollar judgment (the “Judgment”) against Chevron Corporation (“Chevron”) from a provincial court in Ecuador for alleged environmental pollution by Texaco, Inc. (“Texaco”), the shares of which now are owned, directly or indirectly, by Chevron. Steven Donziger, a New York attorney, has been a lead lawyer for them for many years. The Judgment came after about 18 years of litigation in this Court, in Ecuador, and in other fora, among them a number of U.S. district…
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