Chevron Corporation [4] on March 18 filed (PDF [5]) for reimbursement of attorneys' fees against attorney Steven Donziger [6] and others in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [7]. Chevron prevailed [8] earlier this month in its lawsuit against Donziger for fraud and racketeering and demands compensation for over $32 million the company allegedly spent in attorneys' fees associated with the trial. The racketeering trial was brought by Chevron in retaliation for a 2011 lawsuit between the same parties in which Donziger prevailed. That lawsuit, brought by Donziger and litigated in Ecuador, found Chevron liable for 8.6 billion for polluting large areas of the Ecuadorian rain forest. Chevron subsequently brought and prevailed on charges that the Ecuadorian lawsuit was a "multinational criminal enterprise" intended to defraud and extort "one of the best-known companies in the world."
From Jurist [9], March 21. Used with permission.
