SAN FRANCISCO AP - A federal judge has sharply rebuked lawyers suing Chevron Corp. for allegedly causing cancer after polluting areas of Ecuador and ordered the lead attorney to pay a $45,000 fine after wrongly claiming that some of the purported victims were sick.The judge also found that the three purported victims didn't even know that the lawyers were filing a federal lawsuit here in their names.
October 18, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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SAN FRANCISCO AP – A federal judge has sharply rebuked lawyers suing Chevron Corp. for allegedly causing cancer after polluting areas of Ecuador and ordered the lead attorney to pay a $45,000 fine after wrongly claiming that some of the purported victims were sick.
The judge also found that the three purported victims didn’t even know that the lawyers were filing a federal lawsuit here in their names.
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