Law of the jungle : the $19 billion legal battle over oil in the rain forest and the lawyer who'd stop at nothing to win /
Barrett, Paul
Law of the jungle : the $19 billion legal battle over oil in the rain forest and the lawyer who'd stop at nothing to win / Paul M. Barrett. - First edition. - viii, 310 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index.
Surveillance -- Pressure -- Arrival -- Production -- Litigation -- Remediation -- Jurisdiction -- Justicia! -- Inspection -- Lobbying -- Publicity -- Relationships -- Fiasco -- Authorship -- Entrapment -- Cleansing -- Outtakes -- Racketeering -- Decision -- Pollution -- Retribution -- Corruption -- Trial -- Conclusions -- Epilogue.
"[The story of] Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, [who] signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest corporation in America). The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields. During twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron's lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules"--Amazon.com.
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Donziger, Steven R.
Donziger, Steven R.--Trials, litigation, etc.
Donziger, Steven R.
Chevron Corporation--Trials, litigation, etc.
Chevron Corporation.
Texaco Inc.
Chevron Corporation.
Environmental lawyers--United States--Biography.
Liability for oil pollution damages--Ecuador.
Environmental lawyers.
Liability for oil pollution damages.
Trials.
Schadensersatz
Klage
Amaguaje
Ecuador.
United States.
Rio-Napo-Gebiet
Kolumbien
Lago Agrio oil field
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
KF373.D595 / B37 2014
344.7304/6332
Law of the jungle : the $19 billion legal battle over oil in the rain forest and the lawyer who'd stop at nothing to win / Paul M. Barrett. - First edition. - viii, 310 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index.
Surveillance -- Pressure -- Arrival -- Production -- Litigation -- Remediation -- Jurisdiction -- Justicia! -- Inspection -- Lobbying -- Publicity -- Relationships -- Fiasco -- Authorship -- Entrapment -- Cleansing -- Outtakes -- Racketeering -- Decision -- Pollution -- Retribution -- Corruption -- Trial -- Conclusions -- Epilogue.
"[The story of] Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, [who] signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest corporation in America). The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields. During twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron's lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules"--Amazon.com.
9780770436346 077043634X 9780770436360 0770436366
99959997312
2013038226
Donziger, Steven R.
Donziger, Steven R.--Trials, litigation, etc.
Donziger, Steven R.
Chevron Corporation--Trials, litigation, etc.
Chevron Corporation.
Texaco Inc.
Chevron Corporation.
Environmental lawyers--United States--Biography.
Liability for oil pollution damages--Ecuador.
Environmental lawyers.
Liability for oil pollution damages.
Trials.
Schadensersatz
Klage
Amaguaje
Ecuador.
United States.
Rio-Napo-Gebiet
Kolumbien
Lago Agrio oil field
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
KF373.D595 / B37 2014
344.7304/6332