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...whether the videotaping had violated laws. In any event, the scandal promises to delay the completion of a trial that has already spanned two decades and two continents. It began in the early 1990s in New York, after settlers and indigenous tribes in the Amazon oil towns of Coca, Lago Agrio and Shushufindi accused Texaco - which was bought by Chevron in 2002 - of recklessly dumping crude and wastewater into their lakes and rivers, seriously damaging the public health and livelihoods of tens of thousands of people. A court-appointed expert estimated the total damage to be a remarkable $27 billion...
Ironically, Chevron in 2003 requested that the trial be moved to Lago Agrio, believing the conservative Ecuadorian government at the time would be more sympathetic. Indeed, in 1998 the government had declared that Texaco's $40 million cleanup of the sullied Amazon area was satisfactory. But three years later, Correa was elected, and Chevron has complained ever since that his administration has interfered in the case and prodded the judges overseeing it - including Nuñez, who took over last year - toward the plaintiffs...
...high-cost, low-wage state with Mickey Mouse schools and Goofy insurance rates, living beyond its environmental and economic means in harm's way. As peculiar as it sounds, this go-for-broke state of boundless possibilities - the land of Kimbo Slice, Miami Vice and Mar-a-Lago - might be leading America into a new era of limits...
...course, there are more pools in the U.S.--an estimated 7.4 million--than wealthy celebrities. Florida alone has 1.1 million swimming pools, and they can't all be at Mar-a-Lago. (Or can they...
...part of the new approach, Mr. Lago has hired the Austin firm of Defenbaugh and Associates, Inc., which has helped investigate management of such cases for other dioceses in the country, as well as a former senior federal parole officer who drafted guidelines for the federal courts in dealing with sex abuse cases. In addition, he has ordered archdiocese officials to begin greater sharing of information on sex abuse claims with local law enforcement. "We need to take steps at the very beginning of the process so priests aren't left in ministry during the course of an investigation," says...