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In a legal
motion filed this week before a New York state appellate court, Donziger is
demanding he be able to challenge findings of Judge Lewis A. Kaplan that formed
the basis of his temporary suspension.
For more details of the New
York bar grievance committee's handling of the Donziger case, see here.
For background on Chevron's and Judge Kaplan's attacks on Donziger and his
Ecuadorian clients, see this
article by Greenpeace co-founder Rex Weyler.
Harvard Professor Nesson Says
Evidence Proves Oil Giant "Manufactured A Lie" To Try to Strip Donziger's Law
License To Retaliate for Winning Pollution Case
Chevron used witness bribery and other false evidence to lobby for Donziger to be suspended on an interim basis without a hearing after he led Indigenous groups in Ecuador to a landmark court victory over the company.
"I am representing Steven
Donziger because Judge Kaplan's finding that he is guilty of judicial bribery
is a manufactured lie that not even Kaplan stands behind," said Nesson, who
taught Donziger when he was a student at Harvard in 1989.
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