Chevron’s (And The Rule of Law’s) Triumph: The Supreme Court Declines To Hear Donziger’s Appeal – Forbes

On Monday, June 19, 2017, in a few largely unnoticed words, the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed the Rule of Law. The Court declined to hear an appeal by disgraced attorney Steven Donziger of a District Court’s finding that a $9.5 billion Ecuadorian judgment he had obtained against Chevron Corporation had been the product of his and others’ fraud and racketeering, and was therefore unenforceable in the United States. I have detailed the saga of Donziger’s suit against Chevron, on behalf of Ecuadoreans in fact likely injured by actions of their country’s state-owned PetroEcuador, extensively in this column.  Read more>>