Lawyers and career criminals aside, most Americans couldn’t come up with the name of a single federal trial court judge in their own country—never mind naming a judge who presides in foreign lands. But thanks to a pair of cases unfolding in Manhattan, many in Argentina and Ecuador have heard of U.S. District Judges Thomas Griesa and Lewis Kaplan. And they’re not exactly fans.
The reasons are clear to anyone who’s been following Griesa and Kaplan’s most high-profile cases: The bondholder litigation that’s left Argentina in a financial crisis and Chevron Corp.’s campaign against the lawyers who won a $9.5 billion ruling over oil pollution in the Ecuadorean Amazon.
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