Comments on: What 30,000? Etc. It’s Still Not a Class-Action Lawsuit

By: What’s behind the $27 billion figure? « The Chevron Ecuador Lawsuit Clearinghouse

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:18:41 +0000

[...] 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments U.S. trial lawyers representing 48 Ecuadorian plaintiffs (not 30,000) are attempting to hold Chevron liable for more than $27 billion. Amazingly, this astronomical [...]

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:54:59 +0000

You may or may not agree with Carter (and normally I don’t) but name calling is offensive and childish. In my opinion, Carter represents the interests of his constituents and I’ve never seen him claim otherwise. This isn’t some noble cause for either side. I’m guessing money is the driving factor.

By: Carter Wood

Carter Wood — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:39:16 +0000

Don’t know much about the law, do you James?

By: James

James — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:51:45 +0000

popular action = class action
you = willful idiot
what more is there to say?

By: What 30,000? Etc. It’s Still Not a Class-Action Lawsuit « The Chevron Ecuador Lawsuit Clearinghouse

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:09:33 +0000

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By: Karen Hinton

Karen Hinton — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:05:52 +0000

In Ecuador, it’s called a popular action, which means that any member of a community can bring a lawsuit where they see an act that is destroying or somehow disrupting a community resource (in this case, the water and land). So we are representing 30,000 people because that is the estimate of how large the community is that is impacted by the pollution.