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Steven Dozinger, Chevron Plaintiffs' Counsel, in a photograph dated October 21, 2003.
A New York Court of Appeal Postponed Exercise for "Malpractice" American lawyer Steven Donziger who represents the Ecuadorian communities affected by the contamination of the Chevron oil company and who won in 2011 a lawsuit against the company.
The suspension, ordered on Tuesday by a panel of five judges, is derived from a decision made by federal judge Lewis Kaplan in favor of Chevron in 2014, when he determined that Donzinger had committed acts fraudulent sentence that forced the multinational to pay $ 8,600 million in Ecuador.
The American oil company brought the case to the courts of New York for the alleged irregularities found in the trial, conducted in Ecuador, and Kaplan J. found that
According to the arguments of the court of appeal, Donzinger appealed the decision of Kaplan, but not the "underlying conclusions" of the judge, who alleged the coercion and "Judicial corruption, besides the manipulation of a report, by the lawyer
"Because the findings of Justice Kaplan constitute irrefutable evidence of a serious professional misconduct that immediately threatens the public interest, the defendant must immediately suspended" recovers document from court
In a statement after the court's decision, Donzinger considered the case a reprisal for having charged Chevron with "deliberately pouring millions of gallons of Toxic hoes in Ecuador ", and argued that Kaplan's findings are" false "or distorted.
Faced with "serious injustice" to be suspended "without having At a hearing," the lawyer announced his intention to appeal the decision, which he says is the result of a "false testimony paid by Chevron" and "presented by a corrupt recognized witness". EFE
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