17 Feb 2025 9:41 am
This sounds interesting, but who is Donziger? What is Chevron's beef with Donziger? And, what was the motive for the judge to be biased toward Chevron? 500,000 lawyers signing a judicial complaint probably will get someone's attention.ROG62 » Yesterday, 12:09 pm » wrote: ↑ In September 2020, 37 organizations collectively representing 500,000 lawyers worldwide, including this writer, filed a judicial complaint against Kaplan for unethically targeting Donziger for the benefit of Chevron.
"Judge Lewis Kaplan Manipulates Case to Benefit Chevron“
Judge Kaplan picked the charges, picked the private prosecutors, picked the judge, and remained a judge on the case,” Kuby and Garbus wrote in their sentencing memorandum.
“Our L[ong] T[erm] strategy is to demonize Donziger,” Chevron stated in 2009. Aided and abetted by Judge Lewis Kaplan, Chevron made good on its promise.
In 2011, at Kaplan’s suggestion, Chevron sued the Indigenous plaintiffs and their lawyers, including Donziger, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under the Racketeering and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), a law designed to target the mafia. Two weeks before trial in 2014, Chevron dropped its demand for $60 billion damages to prevent Donziger from receiving a jury trial.
Kaplan, who did nothing to hide his explicit bias in favor of Chevron throughout the proceedings, presided over the RICO case. Kaplan ruled that the $9.5 billion judgment the Indigenous plaintiffs had won against Chevron could not be enforced in the United States.
https://truthout.org/articles/human-rig ... t-chevron/
https://nlginternational.org/newsite/wp ... plaint.pdf
this guy's a **** loser...