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Six-Month Sentence for Lawyer Who Took on Chevron Denounced as 'International Outrage'
Conviction of Steven Donziger, said one critic, "perfectly encapsulates how corporate power has twisted the U.S. justice system to protect c
Conley, Julia http://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/01/six-month-sentence-lawyer-who-took-chevron-denounced-international-outrage
Publisher: Common Dreams
Date Written: 01/10/2021
Year Published: 2021
Resource Type: Article
Environmental justice advocates and other progressives on Friday condemned a federal judge’s decision Friday to sentence human rights lawyer Steven Donziger to six months in prison--following more than two years of house arrest related to a lawsuit he filed decades ago against oil giant Chevron.
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Donziger represented a group of farmers and Indigenous people in the Lago Agrio region of Ecuador in the 1990s in a lawsuit against Texaco--since acquired by Chevron--in which the company was accused of contaminating soil and water with its "deliberate dumping of billions of gallons of cancer-causing waste into the Amazon."
An Ecuadorian court awarded the plaintiffs a $9.5 billion judgment in 2011--a decision upheld by multiple courts in Ecuador--only to have a U.S. judge reject the ruling, accusing Donziger of bribery and evidence tampering. Chevron also countersued Donziger in 2011.
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