Southern District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled yesterday that filmmaker Joseph Berlinger can be questioned about events that occurred when his cameras were not rolling on his documentary about environmental litigation against Chevron in Ecuador. Mr. Berlinger had already been compelled by Judge Kaplan to produce outtakes from his movie “Crude” that Chevron claims shows plaintiffs’ lawyer Steven Donziger engaged in misconduct by influencing Ecuadorian officials and experts in the case.
Yesterday, Judge Kaplan said in In re Application of Chevron Corp., 10 MC 00001, that Mr. Berlinger and his associates can be deposed on issues where they “are highly likely to have relevant knowledge that is not already fully disclosed in the outtakes” already produced, specifically, their “observations” of Mr. Donziger and other plaintiffs’ counsel, private or court-appointed experts to the litigation in Maria Aguinda y Otros v. Chevron Corp., and current or former Ecuadorian officials.
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