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 /

"[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 Ec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Barrett, Paul (Paul M.) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Crown Publishers, [2014]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Donziger, Steven R. Environmental lawyers > United States > Biography. Liability for oil pollution damages > Ecuador. Chevron Corporation > Trials, litigation, etc. Chevron Corporation. Lago Agrio (Ecuador)

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.