The Litigation Daily – Chevron v. Donziger: After Botched Quiz, Ex-Judge Seeks Redemption

Zambrano did his best to recover from his failure to recall basic features of the mega-judgment he signed in 2011—and which Chevron claims was actually authored by Steven Donziger or his allies in the underlying Ecuadorian environmental litigation. In a sequel to the memory test that Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Randy Mastro sprang on Zambrano on Nov. 5, the court administered what amounted to an open-book essay exam, giving the former judge a second stab at one of the questions he had botched. Unfortunately for the defense, Zambrano continued to struggle to find coherent answers.

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