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Nal Texaco which Law of PDF later merged with Chevron to become the third largest corporation in America The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields During twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan of the Jungle PDFEPUB and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle Donziger and Chevrons lawyers followed fierce no holds barred rulesDonziger a larger than life loud mouthed showman proved himself a master orchestrator of the media Hollywood and public opinion He cajoled and coerced Ecuadorian judges on the theory that his of the Jungl
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Law of the Jungle The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who'd Stop at Nothing to WinE The 19 PDF noble ends justified of the Jungle The 19 PDF any means of persuasion And in the end he won an unlikely victory abillion judgment against Chevon the biggest environmental damages award in history But the company refused to surrender or compromise Instead Chevron targeted Donziger personally and its counter attack revealed damning evidence of his politicking and manipulation of evidence Suddenly the verdict and decades of Donzigers single minded pursuit of the case began to unravel Written with the texture and flair of the best narrative nonfiction Law of the Jungle is an unputdownable story in which there are countless victims a vast region of ruined rivers and polluted rainforest but very few heroes
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