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US lawyer who sued Chevron sentenced to 6 months in contempt case
Steven Donziger has spent more than two decades battling oil giant over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/1/us-lawyer-who-sued-chevron-sentenced-to-six-months-in-contempt-case
Publisher: Al Jazeera
Date Written: 01/10/2021
Year Published: 2021
Resource Type: Article
Disbarred American lawyer Steven Donziger, who spent more than two decades battling Chevron Corp over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest, has been sentenced to six months in prison on contempt charges.
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A panel of human rights experts commissioned by the United Nations said on September 30 that Donziger's home detention violated international civil rights law and recommended that he be released.
Claire Finkelstein, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the founder and academic director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, said charging and sentencing a lawyer for a criminal contempt violation is "rather rare".
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