Legal Opinion
In Re Application of Chevron Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 20, 2010No. 10 MC 00002 (LAK)PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
LEWIS A. KAPLAN, District Judge.
Chevron Corporation (“Chevron”) is the target of litigation brought in Ecuador by the Lago Agrio plaintiffs in which the latter seek to recover $113 billion for alleged environmental pollution by Texaco, Inc. (“Texaco”). 1 Chevron, Rodrigo Perez Pallares, and Richard Reis Veiga, two Chevron attorneys who now face criminal prosecution in Ecuador (the “Individual Petitioners”), applied under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 to obtain “outtakes” from Joseph Berlinger’s documentary Crude. This Court overruled the objections to the application and ordered…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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