From Ecuador and Lawyers, a Crude Case Against Chevron #12

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Date: March 29, 2007

Meeting with plaintiffs' counsel Pablo Fajardo, Alejandro Ponce Villacis and Juli Prieto with Luis Yanza and Alexis Mera, Ecuador's Secretaery of Judicial Affairs.

Prieto admits that the plaintiffs' claims cannot be brought because the statute of limitations has lapse. He adds that plaintiffs are "workign on some pretty bold theories to get around the Statute of Limitations."


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Shopfloor.org, the blog of the National Association of Manufacturers, has been following the litigation shakedown against Chevron in Ecuador by U.S. trial lawyers and Ecuadorian attorneys and activists, aided by an anti-Chevron PR campaign from U.S. environmentalists and bloggers, and succored by a generally sympathetic mainstream media. For our coverage beginning in May 2007, see:
http://shopfloor.org/?s=ecuador+and+chevron

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• Pablo Fajardo
• Alejandro Ponce Villacis
• Juli Prieto
• uis Yanza
• Alexis Mera
• Ecuador
• Chevron
• Texaco
• Steven Donziger