November 15, 2013
Attorney Steven Donziger on Friday admitted to mishandling aspects of the Ecuadorean pollution litigation that spawned a $9 billion judgment against Chevron Corp., but maintained that the award is valid and blasted the company's New York racketeering suit against him as illegitimate.
November 13, 2013
An Ecuadorean attorney who helped secure a blockbuster Amazon pollution verdict against Chevron Corp. claimed on Wednesday that Ecuadorean law does not require court-appointed experts to be independent and unbiased, challenging a key assertion in the company's New York racketeering trial.
November 12, 2013
Steven Donziger and his co-defendants sought on Tuesday to bolster the legitimacy of the $19 billion pollution verdict at the heart of Chevron Corp.'s New York racketeering trial, through the testimony of a then-teenaged secretary who claims she typed the disputed judgment.
November 07, 2013
A former Ecuadorean judge whom Chevron Corp. has accused of passing off a ghostwritten $19 billion pollution judgment as his own testified Thursday in the company's New York racketeering trial that the oil giant tried to offer him a $1 million dollar bribe in the months after the decision was entered.
November 06, 2013
Defendants in Chevron Corp.'s New York racketeering suit over the legitimacy of a blockbuster $19 billion pollution judgment on Wednesday sought to counter several damaging allegations raised by Chevron against the former judge who claims authorship of that decision during his bruising first day of testimony.
November 05, 2013
A former Ecuadorean judge claimed sole authorship of the $19 billion pollution award behind Chevron Corp.'s sprawling New York racketeering lawsuit on Tuesday, but struggled to answer several questions from Chevron attorneys about factual elements of that decision.
November 04, 2013
A former funder of the Ecuadorean pollution lawsuit at the heart of Chevron Corp.'s $19 billion New York racketeering case against attorney Steven Donziger took the stand Monday to accuse Donziger of telling "blatant lies" about the integrity of the proceedings in order to keep the cash flowing.
October 31, 2013
A prominent Constantine Cannon LLP partner and former Steven Donziger ally took the stand Thursday in Chevron Corp.'s $19 billion New York racketeering suit to detail how he abandoned the underlying litigation after coming to believe it had been "irretrievably wounded" by fraud.
October 30, 2013
Steven Donziger asked a New York judge on Wednesday to toss the testimony of a pivotal witness in Chevron's $19 billion racketeering suit, saying the oil giant's financial support destroys the credibility of a former Ecuadorean judge who has accused the embattled attorney of bribery.
October 25, 2013
A former Ecuadorean judge who claims he accepted bribes to influence litigation leading to a $19 billion judgment against Chevron Corp. faced an onslaught of questions from the defense Friday over admitted inconsistencies and exaggerations in prior statements and his own history of corruption.