Back to Basics: Revisiting Chevron’s abandoned oil fields in Ecuador — and...
A new documentary largely successfully avoids the infinite distractions generated by Chevron’s colossal retaliatory litigation campaign and re-focuses back on what happened–and what is happening today–...
View ArticleWhat counts as victory in Resolute v. Greenpeace?
Headlines from the growing anti-SLAPP movement on the recent decision by Judge Tigar in N.D. California dismissing most of Resolute’s bogus claims against Greenpeace, some of its employees, and...
View ArticleCIGI Essay Series: Environmental Challenges on Indigenous Lands
A fantastic and necessary essay series just published by the Toronto-based Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) on the above subject, with a range of authors (many if not most...
View ArticleCanadian courts re-emerge from the Land of Make Believe – Just in time…
Great news today, except that the progress it represents is only the reversal of a terrible and unjust turn of events that never should have happened in the first place. Canadian courts have been...
View ArticleMaterially misleading?
An Argentine trial court yesterday declined to continue the recognition action on the Ecuadorian judgment, largely for the same reasons as the Canadian trial judge in 2013 (reasons that were later...
View ArticleIN CANADA, CHEVRON TRYING TO BLOCK ECUADORIANS FROM USING U.N. DECLARATION TO...
[ From TheFirstNationsCanada.com ] In a Canadian court, Chevron is trying to block submission of a legal brief over how the company’s attempt to evade paying a $9.5 billion environmental judgment in...
View ArticleSLAPPs Watch: Bolloré
Great show of support from civil society for the French human rights litigation org Sherpa and others. The self-explanatory paragraph: Since 2009, more than 20 defamation suits have been brought in...
View ArticleEcuadorian Constitutional Court Affirms Environmental Judgment Against Chevron
More on this to come (hopefully elaborated in other forums and venues) but here is the decision (in Spanish) and here are the basic parameters: This is the fourth Ecuadorian court to uphold the...
View ArticleFirst of hopefully many dismissals in abusive SLAPP lawsuit against DAPL...
The decision, by inimitable senior federal district judge Bill Wilson (a semi-retired judge from Arkansas sitting by designation in the District of North Dakota) dismisses all of Energy Transfer...
View ArticleSimon Taylor blog / Responding to SLAPPs (Part I)
Simon Taylor, Co-founder and Director of Global Witness and winner of the Skoll Award among others, has an unflinching blog on up on the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre on Chevron’s vicious...
View ArticleBack to Basics: Revisiting Chevron’s abandoned oil fields in Ecuador — and...
A new documentary largely successfully avoids the infinite distractions generated by Chevron’s colossal retaliatory litigation campaign and re-focuses back on what happened–and what is happening today–...
View ArticleWhat counts as victory in Resolute v. Greenpeace?
Headlines from the growing anti-SLAPP movement on the recent decision by Judge Tigar in N.D. California dismissing most of Resolute’s bogus claims against Greenpeace, some of its employees, and...
View ArticleCIGI Essay Series: Environmental Challenges on Indigenous Lands
A fantastic and necessary essay series just published by the Toronto-based Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) on the above subject, with a range of authors (many if not most...
View ArticleAnti-SLAPP Coalition Files Amicus Brief in Donziger Case
[ Press release here. Amicus brief here. ] Washington, DC – Late last night, ten leading civil rights, human rights, and environmental organizations – members of the national coalition challenging...
View ArticleCanadian courts re-emerge from the Land of Make Believe – Just in time…
Great news today, except that the progress it represents is only the reversal of a terrible and unjust turn of events that never should have happened in the first place. Canadian courts have been...
View ArticleMaterially misleading?
An Argentine trial court yesterday declined to continue the recognition action on the Ecuadorian judgment, largely for the same reasons as the Canadian trial judge in 2013 (reasons that were later...
View ArticleWhy didn’t the Boliden case settle?
Reprinted from CSRWire Talkbalk Sometime later this year or early next, lawyers for Swedish mining giant Boliden will head to court in northern Sweden to square off with lawyers for over 700 community...
View ArticleNew blog series on Business & Human Rights
I am in the process of rolling out a Huffington Post blog series on the topic of Business & Human Rights (BHR). The first two blogs introduce the topic and lay the foundation for a series of...
View ArticleNew installments to Huff Post BHR blog series
[New Parts III and IV added. Probably one more part on its way to finish it up.] “Business & Human Rights” (BHR) is an international legal and political framework, arising from the UN Guiding...
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