BP Legal Case for Oil Spill: Cousins Randall Luthi and Jeffery Luthi at Crossroads of Litigation Decision - The Daily Beast

Randall Luthi is the former director of the agency that regulated BP and its Deepwater Horizon floating platform, and Jeffery Luthi, his cousin, is the clerk of the judicial panel that will render a crucial decision about where the lawsuits, which could total billions of dollars, will be tried. Both Luthis are both from Freedom, Wyoming, a town with just 135 residents.

The battle over where the cases against BP, Transocean, Halliburton, and other defendants will be tried has significant impact over how the cases will proceed and their final outcomes.

Consolidating all the lawsuits into a federal court in Houston would give BP a huge home field advantage.

BP wants them all moved to Houston, Texas. Its attorneys are arguing that BP Exploration and Production, Inc. and the other defendants maintain their principal places of business and their key documents and witnesses within the Houston area, according to court documents: “Transfer and consolidation of this litigation in the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, would greatly promote the just and expeditious resolution of these actions.”

KEEP IT WHERE THE SPILL IS - NOT WHERE THEIR HOME BOYS CAN HELP THEM SLIDE OUT OF THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE!

BP Legal Case for Oil Spill: Cousins Randall Luthi and Jeffery Luthi at Crossroads of Litigation Decision - The Daily Beast

John Pilger - Obama and Empire

John Pilger, in my opinion, is one of the best at speaking truth...
What is...
and the optimism with which we can view
the 500 year old events

that are now about to cause the Paradigm Shift
to a better, more inclusive way of Being and Doing.

Rock on, John. Blessings!

Decision Forces Filmmaker to Turn Over 600 Hours of Footage to Chevron � Moving Train Media

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the Federal District Court in New York granted Chevron’s request for a subpoena, which demands access to over 600 hours of footage from “Crude,” a documentary that chronicles a legal battle being supported by 30,000 Amazonian settlers hoping to hold Texaco (now owned by Chevron) responsible for environmental devastation in Ecuador.

Joseph Berlinger, the filmmaker behind “Crude,” claimed he was protected by “journalistic privilege,” but, according to the New York Times, he qualified for the privilege but “the conditions for overcoming that privilege had been met” by Chevron.

Berlinger plans to ask the judge to “stay the subpoena” so the decision can be appealed.

Many in the documentary filmmaking community have indicated that they will support Berlinger’s effort to appeal and resist this decision. Filmmakers understand what this decision could mean for the future of documentary filmmaking.

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CHEVRON - one more Oil Corporation in control of - and devastating whole swaths of humanity and planet with every mile. You can see more about it at http:www.linktv.org or http://democracynow.org; or in many other articles. Just the pictures of Chevron's actions show their attitude in sharp relief.

CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE.

Decision Forces Filmmaker to Turn Over 600 Hours of Footage to Chevron � Moving Train Media

Rustbelt Rage

Jan. 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of U.S. democracy, and its decline.

On that day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government may not ban corporations from political spending on elections—a decision that profoundly affects government policy, both domestic and international.

The decision heralds even further corporate takeover of the U.S. political system.

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A well-done article, as always, from Professor Chomsky.

Paz.

Rustbelt Rage

Decision Forces Filmmaker to Turn Over 600 Hours of Footage to Chevron � Moving Train Media

Chevron doesn't want you to see the Truth of what they're doing there! What you can't see, you can't know, right? Wrong!!!

Do Corporations control EVERYTHING??? Especially the TRUTH!!??

If you let them.

Decision Forces Filmmaker to Turn Over 600 Hours of Footage to Chevron � Moving Train Media