Law of the jungle
Subtitle: the $19 billion legal battle over oil in the rain forest and the lawyer who'd stop at nothing to win
By: Paul M. Barrett
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780770436346; 9780770436360; 9780770436353
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Liability for oil pollution damages; Texaco Inc; Trials; Schadensersatz; Chevron Corporation; Amaguaje; Environmental lawyers; Erdölgewinnung; Cofán; Biography; Klage
Description: "[The story of] Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, [who] signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest corporation in America). The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields. During twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron's lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Surveillance; title: Pressure; title: Arrival; title: Production; title: Litigation; title: Remediation; title: Jurisdiction; title: Justicia!; title: Inspection; title: Lobbying; title: Publicity; title: Relationships; title: Fiasco; title: Authorship; title: Entrapment; title: Cleansing; title: Outtakes; title: Racketeering; title: Decision; title: Pollution; title: Retribution; title: Corruption; title: Trial; title: Conclusions; title: Epilogue.