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Steven Robert Donziger (born September 14, 1961) [1] is an American attorney known for his legal battles with Chevron, particularly Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc. and other cases in which he represented over 30,000 farmers and indigenous people who suffered environmental damage and health problems caused by oil drilling in the Lago Agrio oil field of Ecuador.
Kaplan found there to be overwhelming evidence that the Ecuadorian verdict was the result of a criminal conspiracy spear-headed by the plaintiff's lead attorney, Steven Donziger. In a ruling in July 2019, Kaplan fined Donziger $3.4 million for contempt and for Chevron's legal fees, the largest contempt sanction in US history. [10] [11]
Running time. 100 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Crude is a 2009 American documentary film directed and produced by Joe Berlinger. [1] It follows a two-year portion of an ongoing class action lawsuit against the Chevron Corporation in Ecuador.
Starting in 1993, Donziger spent almost two decades fighting a class-action lawsuit against Texaco, and thenâ ¯Chevron, on behalf of the 30,000 farmers and indigenous people who claimed they ...
In March 2014, United States district court judge Lewis A. Kaplan [19] ruled that the Ecuadorian plaintiff's lead attorney, Steven Donziger, had used "corrupt means," including "coercion, bribery, money laundering and other misconduct," to obtain the 2011 court verdict in Ecuador. The judge did not rule on the underlying issue of environmental ...
Fordham University (JD) New York University (LLM) Loretta A. Preska (born January 7, 1949) is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. [1] Born in Albany, Preska received law degrees from Fordham University School of Law and New York ...
Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc. was a class-action lawsuit against Texaco Petroleum. It was filed in 1993 by American human rights lawyer Steven Donziger on behalf of indigenous collectives in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The lawsuit sought compensation for "alleged environmental and personal injuries arising out of Texaco's oil exploration and extraction ...
Rearden's nomination was criticized by Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who brought up Rearden's controversial role in the prosecution of Steven Donziger. Rearden represented Chevron in its countersuit against Donziger, [9] an environmental lawyer who brought a class action case against Chevron related to environmental damage and health ...