Later reports bearing his signature were filed in the court in Lago Agrio, Ecuador.
Chevron hired a fleet of local lawyers, who were often accompanied in Lago Agrio by bodyguards.
In 2003, Donziger and his colleagues re-filed their case, in Lago Agrio, despite their misgivings about the Ecuadoran legal system.
Unbeknownst to many, there is now a high stakes legal battle taking place between the Chevron Oil Company and the residents of Ecuador's Amazonian area called Lago Agrio.
The jungle outpost of Lago Agrio is in northeastern Ecuador, where the elevation plummets from the serrated ridge of the Andes to the swampy lowlands of the Amazon Basin.
Lago Agrio was named for Sour Lake, the East Texas town where Texaco was established, and, as the oil camp grew into a boom town, pipeline spills became common.
Someone at the table, referring to the popular antipathy toward Chevron in Ecuador, suggests that if the judge in Lago Agrio ruled against the plaintiffs he might be killed.
One day last February, a judge in Lago Agrio, presiding over a spare, concrete courtroom in a shopping mall on the edge of town, issued an opinion that reverberated far beyond the Amazon.
In a case that seems to have had too many cameras whirring in the background, Borja took surreptitious video of conversations with the judge in Lago Agrio, Ecuador who was hearing the case against Chevron.
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They show how non- governmental organizations, labor organizations, community groups and others were organized by the Lago Agrio attorneys to place pressure on the new Ecuadorian government to push for a specific outcome in the litigation, and how the Ecuadorian government intervened in ongoing litigation.
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To allow the Lago Agrio plaintiffs to waive privilege expansively for favorable documents and information as part of a public relations campaign and then shield related documents behind the screen of privilege would be to allow the use of privilege and the work product doctrine as both sword and shield, an abuse that courts have discouraged.
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