Chevron Corp. won a federal court ruling March 4 that a multibillion-dollar pollution judgment issued in Ecuador was procured by fraud, making it less likely that plaintiffs will collect the $9.5 billion award (Chevron Corp. v. Donziger, S.D. N.Y., No. 11 Civ. 0691, 3/4/14)....
[c] The Russian judgments were procured by the said dishonesty and/or false representations and/or would not have been obtained if the true position had not been concealed from, but had revealed to the Court. 83. It is important to bear in mind that the fraud exception is 'a carefully ...
38. On 27 September 1997 Mr Michel had procured the incorporation of a British Virgin Islands company, EMM Ltd ('EMM'). The settler of the trust which was said to own the shares was a man named Luca Del Soldato. On 26 November 1997 the freehold of Chequers Lane was registered to EMM...
Represented Chevron Corporation in its successful RICO suit against Steven Donziger and certain plaintiffs, resulting in the judicial finding that a $9.5 billion Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron was procured through fraud and bribery, in what The Wall Street Journal called the legal “fraud of the...
At the extradition hearing, the applicant applied for disclosure of information on the manner in which the accomplice's evidence was procured, copies of his statements to U.S. authorities, the plea agreement, the indictment to which he pleaded guilty, and his criminal record. February 6, 2009...