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Courthouse News Service – Chevron Still Safe From Paying Ecuadoreans $18B

More coverage of the Federal judge’s ruling in New York which upholds the preliminary injunction that bars the plaintiffs from collecting a judgment. Courthouse News Service writes in this article about how the preliminary injunction had been issued after evidence of fraud on the part of the plaintiffs’ lawyers came to light:

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected an attempt by a group of native Ecuadoreans to lift an injunction barring them from collecting an $18 billion judgment against Chevron for oil contamination.

The judge granted Chevron the injunction on March 7, in response to the oil company’s claims that the verdict in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, stemmed from a fraud on the Ecuadorean court system.

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The @WSJ sums this case up nicely, “[Steven Donziger] and his team fabricated evidence, promised $500,000 to an #Ecuadorean judge to rule in their favor, ghostwrote much of the final verdict and took other actions that ‘perverted’ the course of #justice. Mr. Donziger disputes the… https://t.co/soQ1qreULA
Shameless. Disbarred and convicted of criminal contempt of court for bribing an Ecuadorian judge in an attempted extortion scheme, @SDonziger is nonetheless accepting invitations to speak at #climate rallies. Read more about this adjudicated racketeer: https://t.co/5eac0lRmN7
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DENIED: @SCOTUS rejects hearing case of Steven Donziger, who bribed Ecuadorian judge in failed effort to bilk Chevron for billions of dollars. https://t.co/zT0dlozk5R

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