On March 7 a California appellate court upheld a trial judge’s finding that what had been billed as a watershed liability verdict against Dole Food over pesticide use in Nicaragua was actually the product of a conspiracy by corrupt plaintiffs’ lawyers. That decision came only three days after a federal judge in New York ruled that a multibillion-dollar pollution judgment against Chevron (CVX) in 2011 was so tainted by bribery and coercion that it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.
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Judges Slam More and More Plaintiffs' Attorneys for Corruption
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MachineGhost
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Judges Slam More and More Plaintiffs' Attorneys for Corruption
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Re: Judges Slam More and More Plaintiffs' Attorneys for Corruption
That's obviously a conspiracy theory, so we shouldn't believe it, right?MachineGhost wrote: On March 7 a California appellate court upheld a trial judge’s finding that what had been billed as a watershed liability verdict against Dole Food over pesticide use in Nicaragua was actually the product of a conspiracy by corrupt plaintiffs’ lawyers. That decision came only three days after a federal judge in New York ruled that a multibillion-dollar pollution judgment against Chevron (CVX) in 2011 was so tainted by bribery and coercion that it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... corruption
