Attorneys who worked with lead plaintiffs lawyer Steven Donziger to secure a multibillion-dollar environmental damage judgment against Chevron in Ecuador have been ordered to turn over documents to Chevron as the oil company pursues its racketeering claim that the judgment was obtained by fraud.
O’Melveny & Myers has moved for sanctions against MGA Entertainment, complaining that it failed to turn over a large portion of discovery in a fees dispute stemming from the firm’s representation of MGA in the first trial in its lengthy copyright infringement case against Mattel.
A Los Angeles judge has ordered dealerships to turn over repair records to plaintiffs attorneys in the sudden acceleration litigation against Toyota after an attempt by plaintiffs lawyers to view such documents collapsed in confusion.
One of the federal government’s few successful verdicts in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case faces reversal after prosecutors acknowledged for the first time during a court hearing that they had failed to turn over all of an FBI agent’s grand jury testimony.
A resort operator’s attempt to force Google to turn over extensive information about the sender of an allegedly libelous email criticizing the company’s treatment of native Jamaicans has been rebuffed by a New York court in a decision that grapples with the nature of libel claims in the Internet age.