Jul 26, 2021 | Environmental Law
The accusers and the accused In November 1993, a Massachusetts attorney named Cristóbal Bonifaz filed a class-action lawsuit against Texaco in a federal court in Manhattan, on behalf of thirty thousand indigenous people and uneducated settlers who called...
Jul 8, 2021 | Environmental Law
The accusers and the accused On April 4th, 2018, Dutch NGO Milieudefensie started a lawsuit against Shell. On February 12th, 2019, six other Dutch NGO’s joined Milieudefensie as plaintiffs (those who bring a case to court) [1]. On the other side of the court,...
