In a new release from The American Lawyer’s film archive on the Ecuadorian environmental litigation against Chevron Corporation, Chevron’s chief pursuer privately mocks the judges he now publicly praises (but used to publicly mock).
This outtake from the film Crude captures Steven Donziger–the lead U.S. lawyer for the Ecuadorian tribespeople suing Chevron for alleged pollution of the Amazon basin–in a typically frank moment. Donziger is returning from a 2006 confrontation with a judge in Quito, Ecuador, whom Chevron had asked to inspect a laboratory testing soil samples gathered by plaintiffs for trial. The clip is among the outtakes cited by federal district judge Lewis Kaplan as evidence justifying the deposition of Donziger. Last summer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit allowed Chevron to subpoena most of the cut footage over the filmmaker’s First Amendment objections.
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