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.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2014]Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 310 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780770436346
  • 077043634X
  • 9780770436360
  • 0770436366
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 344.7304/6332 23
LOC classification:
  • KF373.D595 B37 2014
Contents:
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.
Summary: "[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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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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