From the get-go, we pointed out that the RICO suit Chevron filed against the Ecuadoreans suing the company for massive environmental pollution in the Amazon would be laugh-out-loud funny if it wasn’t so insulting and it didn’t seem so likely that Chevron was actually serious. Well, it turns out Chevron and its lawyers weren’t really [...]
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Chevron’s latest bullying legal tactic is a RICO suit filed in a U.S. federal court against the Indigenous and rural Ecuadoreans who are attempting to force the company to clean up its billions of gallons of toxic oil waste in the Amazon. One of the plaintiffs’ lawyers in Ecuador, Juan Pablo Sáenz, filed a declaration [...]
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Friday, April 22, 2011
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