The worm turns - Chevron

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Now this would be fun to watch -- from Hot Air:
DC firm shaking down Chevron learns lesson about poking the bear
There�s been a new, and some might say long overdue twist in the ongoing saga of Ecuador�s Chevron shakedown. We�ve been covering this story here since January of 2011 and it�s been a wild roller coaster ride. From the time the environmental groups involved were initially awarded a huge payday in a kangaroo court, we�ve seen blatant fraud uncovered on the part of the plaintiffs, �investors� in the lawsuit claiming they were defrauded, and the judge in the case admitting that he was bribed.

Through it all, one law firm in DC, Patton Boggs, has been nipping at Chevron�s heels on their own behalf, as well as supporting the people trying to pick Chevron�s pockets. But as CNN reports, you can only push somebody so many times before they push back:
Since late 2010, Washington, D.C. law firm Patton Boggs has been poking a sleeping tiger. It has filed three peculiar federal lawsuits � in its own name, not on behalf of any client � against Chevron, the third-largest corporation in the United States. These cases have fared poorly; two were quickly dismissed, and a federal magistrate judge recommended tossing the third in March.

On Friday, the tiger awoke. Chevron (CVX) sought a federal judge�s permission to bring counterclaims against the 455-lawyer firm for alleged fraud and deceit for its conduct in representing the Amazon Defense Front, which obtained a $19 billion environmental judgment against the oil giant in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, in February 2011. Chevron also seeks to charge the firm with �malicious prosecution� for having pursued its three lawsuits in bad faith. Chevron seeks to hold the law firm liable for any damages Chevron suffers from the Front�s allegedly fraud-infested litigation, plus punitive and treble damages.
Heh -- I hope that Patton Boggs gets taken to the cleaners and that this serves as a heads-up to other 'enviro' groups. Thirty years ago, most of them did decent science. Now, it's just Eco-Socialism, a bunch of watermelon environmentalists. They need to get their pee-pees whacked good and hard.

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