United States Fifth Circuit

In an action alleging that defendant-Chevron polluted the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest over the course of several decades while engaging in oil extraction in the region, the district court’s order directing plaintiffs' consultants to submit to a foundational deposition is affirmed where: 1) it made no sense to require defendant to seek the consulting firm's documents from an Ecuadorean official, given the plaintiffs' denial that they provided any such documents to the official and his interest in denying receipt of the firm's material; and 2) the record did not clearly demonstrate that defendant was attempting to evade restrictions on discovery in Ecuador.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/09/2010
• Published 09/09/2010

Judges

• Fortunato P. Benavides

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel