Steven Donziger isn’t the only one who has a bone to pick with U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, the Manhattan judge who sided with Chevron Corporation earlier this year in sprawling litigation over legacy oil pollution in the Ecuadorean Amazon.
This week the Republic of Ecuador submitted a proposed amicus brief in the Donziger case, which is now before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Winston & Strawn’s Eric Bloom writes that Kaplan insulted Ecuador’s judiciary when he ruled in March that Donziger manipulated Ecuador’s courts through bribery and fraud to win a $9.5 billion environmental judgment against Chevron.
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