Is the world of John Galt a governmental reality - where the deck is stacked in favor of the bureauticians? It was in this case, yet the plaintiff pulled an Ace out of the deck - the judge.
Quoting: This week the environmental movement suffered its biggest defeat since Climategate. Donziger's case was constructed on a web of lies, deceit and corruption. Donziger stood personally to make $600 million from the litigation should it prove successful. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday found that New York lawyer Steven Donziger and his litigation team engaged in coercion, bribery, money laundering and other criminal conduct in their effort to obtain a multibillion dollar pollution judgment in Ecuador against Chevron Corp.
My opinion: A rare occasion when big oil is a hero. Next to government, big oil is the biggest contributor to greenism. This case shows it coming back to bite them.
That was a good article. The Wall Street Journal ran several editorials supporting Chevron, but the usual suspects lined up against it. I think corporations would help themselves if they stood on principle, and if they quit running all those adds that champion their commitments to charity, environmentalism, and whatever else is the ideological flavor of the month. You can't defeat somebody if you start out by conceding the justice of their cause.
This week the environmental movement suffered its biggest defeat since Climategate.
Donziger's case was constructed on a web of lies, deceit and corruption.
Donziger stood personally to make $600 million from the litigation should it prove successful.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday found that New York lawyer Steven Donziger and his litigation team engaged in coercion, bribery, money laundering and other criminal conduct in their effort to obtain a multibillion dollar pollution judgment in Ecuador against Chevron Corp.
My opinion:
A rare occasion when big oil is a hero. Next to government, big oil is the biggest contributor to greenism. This case shows it coming back to bite them.