Environmental Law
Chevron Sues Plaintiffs Lawyer for $4M, Alleges Malicious Prosecution
Posted Nov 17, 2009, 04:51 pm CST
By Martha Neil
After making headlines several months ago by posting a video on YouTube to bolster its defense of an Ecuador-based environmental mass tort case, Chevron is again trying an unusual litigation tactic in a closely related case.
The company has sued a plaintiffs attorney for $4 million in federal court in San Francisco, contending that an environmental claim he filed amounted to malicious prosecution, reports the American Lawyer in an article reprinted in New York Lawyer (reg. req.).
Chevron's suit concerns an environmental case filed in federal court in San Francisco by Massachusetts practitioner Cristobal Bonifaz in conjunction with a convoluted multinational litigation effort in Ecuador and the United States that has gone on for more than a… Continue reading...
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