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How corporate tyranny works - Chevron poisoned the Amazon, and then punished environmental lawyer Steven Donziger when he tried to get justice
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- Chris Hedges: How Corporate Tyranny Works
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- Aug 25 2020
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- 4139 words
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger
In the 1970's Texaco (now owned by Chevron) started dumping heavy metals and toxins into the drinking water in Ecuador. In 1993, Steven Donziger brought a class-action lawsuit against them on behalf of the farmers and Indigenous people. After losing that case, Chevron bribed a former Ecuadorean judge to present false testimony in US courts, and now Donziger is under house arrest. Chevron has pressured media outlets to drop stories about the Chevron and Donziger litigation.
Here's a more recent article, he just won an appeal: http://redgreenandblue.org/2021/03/05/steven-donziger-beat-chevron-court-crucified-just-won-appeal/
Here is the decision. From the summary, it doesn't sound like he actually won?
Here's another news story about the result of the appeal that gives a bit of background:
Lawyer and Chevron critic Donziger's civil contempt finding mostly upheld; fees and sanctions vacated.
This is the first I've read (well, skimmed) about this case. I'm wondering what argument convinced Kaplan that the decision made by the Ecuadorian court was based on fraud, but I'm not going to look into it further. Maybe someone else could look?