974 F. Supp. 2d 362 - Chevron Corp. v. Donziger’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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1. “"and the Ecuadorian lawyers he led corrupted the Lago Agrio case. They submitted fraudulent evidence. They coerced one judge, first to use a court-appointed, supposedly impartial, "global expert" to make an overall damages assessment and, then, to appoint to that important role a man whom Donziger hand-picked and paid to "totally play ball" with the LAPs. They then paid a Colorado consulting firm secretly to write all or most of the global expert's report, falsely presented the report as the work of the court-appointed and supposedly impartial expert, and told half-truths or worse to U.S. courts in attempts to prevent exposure of that and other wrongdoing. Ultimately, the LAP team wrote the Lago Agrio court's Judgment themselves and promised $500,000 to the Ecuadorian judge to rule in their favor and sign their judgment." 34”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chevron Corp. v. Donziger · Chevron Corp. v. Snaider

2. “It was Donziger’s purpose to magnify the pressure on Chevron by increasing both the perceived magnitude of its potential exposure and the perceived likelihood that the exposure in the end would culminate in huge liability. He repeatedly did so by manifestly wrongful means, which included corruption of the litigation and a pressure campaign premised on misrepresentations. Within the litigation, he coerced [the judge presiding over the Ecuador lawsuit] to allow the [plaintiffs in the Ecuador lawsuit] to drop their remaining judicial inspections and to appoint them hand-picked global expert, coordinated the ghostwriting of the [global expert report] to threaten Chevron for the first time with more than $ 16 billion of exposure; co-opted [the global expert] to put his name to it; supervised the ghostwriting for [the global expert’s] signature on the response to the [parties’] comments on the [global expert’s report], which raised the ante to more than $22 billion; and bribed [the judge] to allow the [plaintiffs’] team to ghostwrite the multibillion Judgment. His pressure campaign relied upon his repeated dissemination of estimates of Chevron’s damages exposure ... that he knew to be false. Each of these tactics increased the perceived threat of harm to Chevron, either by increasing the dollar exposure, by increasing the probability of a judgment that could be enforced outside Ecuador, or by both. They were inherently wrongful by any definition. Chevron had a preexisting right to ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 175 F. Supp. 3d 280 - Bouveng v. NYG Capital LLC

3. “Id. Judge Kaplan stated, “The Invictus Memo made clear that the LAPs’ enforcement strategy contemplated an initial multi-pronged attack on Chevron, its assets, and subsidiaries in multiple jurisdictions outside the United States....” Id. . In the subpoena, Chevron defines CHEVRON LITIGATIONS as”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chevron Corp. v. Snaider