By Roger Parloff, senior editor
How did extensive language from the plaintiffs' internal files end up in the judge's ruling?Editor's note: The following is a web-only companion story to "Have you got a piece of this lawsuit?" from Fortune's June 13th, 2011 issue.
Judge Nicolas Zambrano shows the lawsuit files at his office in the Lago Agrio Courthouse January 25, 2011.
FORTUNE -- Ordinarily, an allegation that plaintiffs lawyers may have been clandestinely involved in the MORE
May 31, 2011 5:00 AM ET
The bitter environmental suit against Chevron in Ecuador opens a window on a troubling new business: speculating in court cases.
By Roger Parloff, senior editor
FORTUNE -- Many readers will have already heard about the bitterly contested $18.2 billion environmental judgment handed down against Chevron in February by a judge in Sucumbíos province in northeastern Ecuador, an Amazon jungle region where Colombian narcoterrorists go for R&R. The judgment was entered in the MORE
May 31, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Editor's Note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our archive. On this Memorial Day weekend, travel back to August 1938 to New York City's Coney Island on a hot summer Sunday. The article profiles the narrow strip of land where Brooklyn meets the Atlantic and thousands of New Yorkers still pour out of the subway to eat hot dogs, ride roller coasters, visit bathhouses and watch freak shows. This was during the MORE
May 29, 2011 10:17 AM ET
The contest for the Republican presidential ticket is filled with Washington outsiders, making the race to win over lobbyists inside the Beltway all the more complicated.
By Tory Newmyer, writer
FORTUNE -- Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty kicked off his bid for the Republican presidential nomination this week by telling corn-rich Iowans he wants to phase out ethanol subsidies. Then he headed to Florida, the retiree's haven, and called for reform of MORE
May 25, 2011 12:12 PM ET
Editor's Note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our archive. Editor-at-large Shawn Tully introduces this story from the December 22, 1986 issue of Fortune:
In 1986, as Paris Bureau Chief for Fortune, I landed one of the most coveted interviews in the world of business journalism, an invitation to meet with fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich, then living and working in the wealthy hamlet of Zug, Switzerland, near Zurich. Rich had dispatched his attorney Leonard MORE
May 22, 2011 9:56 AM ETIn his new book, The Big Thirst — The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, author Charles Fishman weaves a fascinating narrative about the most essential element on Earth.
By Kit R. Roane, contributor
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FORTUNE -- We don't tend to think about water until it rears up as a force of brutal destruction, as it did recently in Japan, or falls away, like the last trickle from a faucet, just MORE
May 20, 2011 5:00 AM ET
How did the union-heavy Big Three end up with a Republican as the face of the U.S. auto industry in Washington? Matt Blunt will tell you how.
By Anna Palmer, contributor
Matt Blunt, the former Republican governor of Missouri, is the new face of the Big Three.
FORTUNE -- Matt Blunt has a big job ahead of him.
As the new head of the American Automotive Policy Council, a lobbying group formed in MORE
May 19, 2011 11:15 AM ET
Health rewards, transparency, employee recognition, and perks galore: It's easy to see why Whole Foods has some of the nation's happiest workers.
By Chris Tkaczyk, reporter
Deli workers at the Whole Foods in New York City's Tribeca neighborhood
FORTUNE -- Established decades before the terms "natural" and "sustainable" were in vogue, the healthy, wholesome grocery chain has grown to more than 300 locations in the U.S. It's also a MORE
May 18, 2011 5:00 AM ETDina Wein Reis was accused of duping several Fortune 500 companies of millions of dollars. The self-described philanthropist is expected to close this legal chapter with a guilty plea.
By James Bandler, editor-at-large
FORTUNE -- Dina Wein Reis, who made a fortune by capitalizing on male vanity and corporate greed, will finally have her day in court.
Fortune has learned that the flamboyant, accused con artist plans to plead guilty to a felony MORE
May 17, 2011 12:06 PM ET
By Richard I. Kirkland Jr.
Editor's note: As the Republican slate for the upcoming presidential primary season starts to take shape, Fortune looks back at the rise of one of the leading candidates, Newt Gingrich, at a time when he had just managed to unite Republicans in seizing control of the House of Representatives. CEOs surveyed by Fortune saw Gingrich's party not just as anti-big government, but anti-big business, and feared the consequences MORE
May 15, 2011 10:15 AM ET
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