Legal Opinion
Huani v. Donziger
New York Supreme Court
Decided August 29, 2014Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Debra A. James, J.
In this declaratory judgment action, defendants Steven Donziger, a New York attorney (Donziger), The Law Offices of Steven R. Donziger, and Donziger & Associates, PLLC (collectively the Donziger defendants) move, pursuant to CPLR 327, to dismiss this action based on forum non conveniens or, in the alternative, to dismiss pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) and (10) for failure to state a cause of action or failure to join a necessary party.
This lawsuit has, as its genesis, an $18.2 billion judgment (the Lago Agrio judgment) obtained in Ecuador by a group of…
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