Ecuador Hero, Steven Dozinger, gets new trial on Unjust Bar case
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It has been decades long battle for Ecuadorian citizens, to receive recompense, for the environmental and human suffering consequences of Texaco (now Chevron) ravaging recklessness; and NY Attorney at Law, Steven Dozinger, was the hero who won a $9 billion dollar verdict.
Chevron managed to get Steven Dozinger disbarred!
Strange thing is, there's no question of culpability. Anyone can see that there is environmental collateral damage as a result of reckless disregard via oil profiteering pursuits.
As I previously posted, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame, is doing a South American mysuc tour; and Mr. Waters us outspoken about not letting Chevron get away with retaliation against Dozinger - or letting Chevron off 'Scot Free'.
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Apparently Steven Dozinger's due process rights were quashed; and the independent Referee thinks a new trial is in order for Mr. Dozinger.
We think that is wonderful news.
According to Ohio's WHIO TV 7 ( [link:
https://www.whio.com/news/lawyer-who-battled-chevron-may-get-chance-defend-himself/oN7eME8z2d7zidmFhGs5LJ/|HERE] ) -
A New York attorney who won a landmark oil pollution judgment against Chevron in Ecuador's court system only to have his law license suspended at home for malpractice never got a fair hearing and should be allowed to defend himself against disbarment, a legal referee has ruled.
The decision involves Steven Donziger, who led a legal team representing Ecuadoreans trying to get Chevron to pay for environmental damage caused to a rainforest by Texaco during its operation of an oil consortium from 1972 to 1990.
The legal campaign begun in 1993 was ultimately successful in Ecuador. A court there ordered Chevron to pay $9.5 billion. But in 2014, a judge in New York, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, invalidated the Ecuador judgment, deeming it was obtained through legal malpractice.
A court-appointed referee, John R. Horan, ruled on Nov. 8 that Donziger deserves a hearing to defend himself. He also questioned whether Kaplan violated Donziger's constitutional right to due process.
Kaplan effectively "created a criminal indictment" and tried Donziger for conspiracy, Horan said.
