No one seems that interested in treating the law case as a law case.
More recently, my view that Donziger was pretty obviously guilty of contempt of court, and that Judge Preska was right not to allow him to put on evidence at his trial showing that Judge Kaplan had been biased and had gotten his findings of fact all wrong about what had happened in Ecuador, has not endeared me to Donziger and his partisans. Years ago, when I was arguing that the law should be that if you get a case dismissed in a US court on forum non conveniens grounds in favor of litigation in another country, you shouldn’t be heard later to complain that that country’s courts are corrupt as a reason for a US court not to recognize the judgment, and that evidence of corruption in the Lago Agrio court of first instance should not be enough to lead a US court to reject the judgment as long as there was no showing that the Ecuadoran appellate courts were corrupt, Chevron’s partisans were, I think, not too happy with me. The Chevron/Ecuador/Donziger case is a great example of this. Kaplan haswith investments, Chevron is a recent client of S&K, and Preska is a leader of the Chevron-funded Federalist Society, an infamously powerful and pro-corporate law organization.One thing I have learned in many years of writing about law cases that are politically or morally important to people is that there really is no market on social media for writing about them as law cases. Chevron then got Judge Lewis Kaplan to appoint private law firm Seward and Kissel’s Rita Glavin as prosecutor, and named Judge Loretta Preska to preside over the case.Īll three are closely tied through Chevron. Not only is this a basic violation of attorney-client privilege, he faces six months imprisonment on top of this excessive pretrial-detention for a misdemeanor contempt of court charge that has at worst led to a 90 day sentence.įederal prosecutors declined this case on legal grounds. In echoing the calls from over a dozen human rights groups, Amnesty International, 68 Nobel laureates, and members of Congress including NY’s own AOC and Jamal Bowman, we see the corruption that the DOJ can stop.ĭonziger has endured over 640 days of house arrest for refusing to release his computer, phone, and passwords to Chevron.
#RITA GLAVIN DONZIGER FULL#
Merrick Garland: Stop This Trial For Full DOJ Case Takeover, and End Donziger’s Detainment
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