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Author Barrett, Paul (Paul M.), author.

Title Law of the jungle : the $19 billion legal battle over oil in the rain forest and the lawyer who'd stop at nothing to win / Paul M. Barrett.

Publication Info. New York : Crown Publishers, [2014]

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  344.73 BARRETT    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  344.73 BAR    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  344.73 BARRETT    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  344.7304 BAR    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  344.7304 BA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 290 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index.
Contents Surveillance -- Pressure -- Arrival -- Production -- Litigation -- Remediation -- Jurisdiction -- Justicia! -- Inspection -- Lobbying -- Publicity -- Relationships -- Fiasco -- Authorship -- Entrapment -- Cleansing -- Outtakes -- Racketeering -- Decision -- Pollution -- Retribution -- Corruption -- Trial -- Conclusions -- Epilogue.
Summary "[The story of] Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, [who] signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest corporation in America). The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields. During twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron's lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules"--Amazon.com.
Subject Donziger, Steven R.
Environmental lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
Liability for oil pollution damages -- Ecuador.
Donziger, Steven R. -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Chevron Corporation -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Chevron Corporation.
Indexed Term Lago Agrio oil field
ISBN 9780770436346 (hardback)
077043634X (hardback)
9780770436360 (paperback)
0770436366 (paperback)
9780770436353 (ebook)
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