TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barrett,Paul
TI  - 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 
SN  - 9780770436346
AV  - KF373.D595 B37 2014
U1  - 344.7304/6332 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Crown Publishers
KW  - Donziger, Steven R.
KW  - Chevron Corporation
KW  - Trials, litigation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Texaco Inc
KW  - gnd
KW  - Environmental lawyers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Liability for oil pollution damages
KW  - Ecuador
KW  - Trials
KW  - Schadensersatz
KW  - Klage
KW  - Amaguaje
KW  - Rio-Napo-Gebiet
KW  - Kolumbien
KW  - Lago Agrio oil field
KW  - Trial and arbitral proceedings
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - "[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
ER  -