lawyer who won chevron prison

Who won the Chevron vs Ecuador case?

DonzigerIn 2014, U.S federal judge Lewis A. Kaplan ruled that the Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron "was the product of fraud." Guerra—who received cash and benefits from Chevron totaling $2 million, according to Donziger—later admitted he lied about the bribery, but the case continued.Aug 31, 2021

Why was Steve Donziger imprisoned?

Donziger, who was disbarred in New York last year, was found guilty of criminal contempt in July including for failing to turn over his computer and other electronic devices in connection with his long-running legal battle with Chevron Corp over oil pollution in Ecuador.Dec 10, 2021

Why did Chevron sue Steven Donziger?

Donziger and other attorneys filed suit against Texaco in 1993 on behalf of more than 30,000 indigenous people and farmers in the Amazon. The case was filed in New York since the company was based in the U.S., but Texaco wanted to move the case to Ecuador where the legal system doesn't involve juries.Nov 4, 2021

Has Steven Donziger been released?

On December 9, 2021, Donziger was released from prison to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest per a pandemic-related early release program.

What did Donziger do wrong?

Donziger was found guilty in July of six counts of criminal contempt of court for withholding evidence in a long, complex legal fight with Chevron, which claims that Mr. Donziger fabricated evidence in the 1990s to win a lawsuit he filed against the oil giant on behalf of 30,000 Indigenous people in Ecuador.Oct 27, 2021

Is Donziger still in jail?

Steven Donziger, the U.S. human rights attorney sentenced in October to six months' incarceration for refusing to hand over privileged client information to fossil fuel giant Chevron, said Thursday that he was released from a federal prison in Connecticut to complete his sentence under house arrest.Dec 9, 2021

What is Chevron accused of?

“Thanks to Mr. Donziger's generous work, three layers of Ecuador courts found Chevron guilty of deliberately dumping billions of gallons of toxic oil waste into the Amazon rainforest. Chevron has refused to pay the court-ordered compensation, and has instead set out to, in their own words, “demonize Mr. Donziger.”Feb 26, 2020

Is Chevron still in Ecuador?

Chevron has never operated in Ecuador. Texaco Petroleum (TexPet), which became a subsidiary of Chevron in 2001, was a minority partner in an oil-production consortium in Ecuador along with the state-owned oil company, Petroecuador, from 1964 to 1992.