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Oct. 4, 2014

A tale of legal machinations and subterfuge

In "Law of the Jungle," about the decades-long Ecuadorian oil pollution case, Paul Barrett tells a story in which there are countless victims and few heroes.


Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard-educated lawyer, signed onto a class action against Texaco (which later merged with Chevron) in the early 1990s. The suit sought damages for people affected by decades of oil pollution in Ecuador. After a 20-year legal battle waged in courts in both New York and Ecuador, he won a $19 billion verdict against Chevron. But the fight was not over: Chevron then went after Donziger personally, and the counterattack re...

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