IN RE APPLICATION OF CHEVRON CORP.

No. M-19-111.

709 F.Supp.2d 283 (2010)

In re APPLICATION OF CHEVRON CORPORATION, Petitioner. In re Application of Rodrigo Pérez Pallares and Richard Reis Veiga, Petitioners.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

As Corrected May 10, 2010.

Opinion Denying Stay May 20, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randy M. Mastro , Scott A. Edelman , Andrea E. Neuman , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, for Petitioner Chevron Corporation.

Paul E. Dans , Jorge A. Mestre , Andre Rivero , Rivero Mestre & Castro, for Petitioner Rodrigo Pérez Pallares.

Peter J. Kahn , Beth A. Stewart , Williams & Connolly LLP, for Petitioner Ricardo Reis Veiga.

Ilaan M. Maazel , Jonathan S. Abady , O. Andrew F. Wilson , Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, for Respondents Lago Agrio Plaintiffs.

Maura J. Wogan , Jeremy S. Goldman , Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, P.C., for Respondents Joseph A. Berlinger, Michael Bonfiglio, Third Eye Motion Picture Co., Inc., Crude Productions, LLC, and @radical.media.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

LEWIS A. KAPLAN, District Judge.

These are applications pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782 to issue subpoenas in connection with a multi-billion dollar Ecuadorian litigation against Chevron Corporation ("Chevron"), the threatened criminal prosecution in Ecuador of two of its attorneys, and an international arbitration. Specifically, Chevron and the attorneys seek to subpoena the "outtakes" of a documentary film entitled Crude, the...

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