Bibliograph

Law of the jungle, the $19 billion legal battle over oil in the rain forest and the lawyer who'd stop at nothing to win, Paul M. Barrett

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Law of the jungle, the $19 billion legal battle over oil in the rain forest and the lawyer who'd stop at nothing to win, Paul M. Barrett

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Law of the jungle

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

861120062

Responsibility statement

Paul M. Barrett

Sub title

the $19 billion legal battle over oil in the rain forest and the lawyer who'd stop at nothing to win

Summary

"[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

Table Of Contents

Surveillance -- Pressure -- Arrival -- Production -- Litigation -- Remediation -- Jurisdiction -- Justicia! -- Inspection -- Lobbying -- Publicity -- Relationships -- Fiasco -- Authorship -- Entrapment -- Cleansing -- Outtakes -- Racketeering -- Decision -- Pollution -- Retribution -- Corruption -- Trial -- Conclusions

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