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Steven Robert Donziger (born September 14, 1961) [1] [2] is an American attorney known for his legal battles with Chevron, particularly Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc. and other cases in which he represented over 30,000 farmers and indigenous people who suffered environmental damage and health problems caused by oil drilling in the Lago Agrio oil field of Ecuador.
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that set forth the legal test used when U.S. federal courts must defer to a government agency's interpretation of a law or statute. [1] The decision articulated a doctrine known as "Chevron deference". [2]
On this page, environmental lawsuit means "a lawsuit where the well-being of an environmental asset or the well-being of a set of environmental assets is in dispute". Also on this page, lawsuit with environmental relevance means "a lawsuit where a non-environmental entity or a set of non-environmental entities is in dispute, but whose outcome has relevance for an environmental asset or for a ...
“By and large, Chevron is no longer cited, let alone relied on, in lower courts.” Faced with a hostile Supreme Court, the EPA has relied on Chevron less and less in recent years. Still, the ...
California-based Chevron, which reported about $21.4 billion in earnings last year, purchased the Renewable Energy Group in 2022 for $3.15 billion. The Ralston plant, which can produce 30 million ...
A new lawsuit is challenging Wisconsin's Act 10 which has been law for more than 12 years. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
A Chevron spokesperson commented that the award was "nothing more than a stunt to distract attention from the fact that the lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador has been proven to be meritless and the product of unprecedented fraud" and pointed to a U.S. court finding that the plaintiff's lawyers had committed "mail and wire fraud, money ...
Since being handed down, Chevron had become among the most frequently cited cases in American administrative law. [7] Over 17,000 lower federal court decisions and 70 decisions by the Supreme Court itself cited Chevron. [8] Between 2003 and 2013, circuit courts applied Chevron in 77% of decisions regarding regulatory disputes. [9]