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Legal Pad - FORTUNE Magazine 3 human rights lawyers fined in Chevron case «

From a personal injury suit alleging cancer and related injuries from Texaco’s drilling in the Amazon region of Ecuador, a federal district court judge fined counsel $45,000 when it was revealed the plaintiffs neither had cancer, nor had ever met their attorneys.

Comments to the post refer to plaintiffs in another more legitimate suit, injured now by this case.

Fortune Magazine’s Legal Pad contains interesting posts about other law suits.

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