{"id":17937,"date":"2013-05-14T17:48:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17937"},"modified":"2013-05-14T17:48:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:48:25","slug":"chevron-keeps-fighting-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17937\/chevron-keeps-fighting-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Chevron Keeps Fighting Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My column last week included<a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/42-constitution-and-legal\/1835-good-news-from-the-courts\" target=\"_blank\"> yet another update<\/a> on the long-running dispute between the oil giant Chevron and a group of apparently underhanded plaintiffs&#8217; lawyers with regard to a rather obviously bogus lawsuit involving alleged Ecuadoran environmental damage.<\/p>\n<p>Just a little update: Now Chevron isn&#8217;t just fighting back against the main plaintiffs&#8217; lawyers and against corrupt judges in Ecuador, but also <a href=\"http:\/\/features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/13\/chevron-seeks-to-sue-patton-boggs-for-fraud-and-deceit\/\" target=\"_blank\">against the major DC law\/lobby firm Patton-Boggs<\/a>. This is serious stuff. Not to pre-judge the outcome of this counter-suit, but the very act of suing Patton-Boggs directly is a major and, I think, unusual step. Usually it&#8217;s not the firms themselves that get sued. Then again, rarely has a company been so abused as Chevron has been by the long-running lawsuit, so it should be no surprise that Chevron is looking absolutely everywhere it can to be &#8220;made whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the <em>underlying<\/em> case (not the specific claims against P-B), Chevron of course continues to prove its points, again and again and again. Chevron clearly has been wronged, and everybody, including Patton-Boggs, should acknowledge as much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column last week included yet another update on the long-running dispute between the oil giant Chevron and a group of apparently underhanded plaintiffs&#8217; lawyers with regard to a rather obviously bogus lawsuit involving alleged Ecuadoran environmental damage. Just a little update: Now Chevron isn&#8217;t just fighting back against the main plaintiffs&#8217; lawyers and against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2668,2669,4134],"class_list":["post-17937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-chevron","tag-ecuador","tag-patton-boggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17938,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17937\/revisions\/17938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}