After defeating Alien Tort Statute claims over its alleged role in Colombian war crimes, Chiquita Brands International Inc. is making claims of its own against a prominent human rights lawyer spearheading the case.
Chiquita’s lawyers at Covington & Burling say Terry Collingsworth of Conrad & Scherer may have proposed paying former Colombian paramilitaries to give false testimony, and they’ve asked a judge to delay depositions that they say could prejudice their client. But Collingsworth maintains that the plaintiffs did nothing wrong, and that Chiquita is just trying to postpone a reckoning of its conduct in Colombia’s bloody civil war.
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