New York – U.S. trial judge Loretta Preska has denied all Zoom access to the upcoming contempt trial of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger in a widely condemned move that his lawyers say is designed to limit public access to an unprecedented one-sided trial run by a private Chevron prosecutor. 

Marty Garbus, who is representing Donziger along with Rob Kuby, condemned the move as an “obvious and transparent attempt to hide public scrutiny of a farcical proceeding with a biased judge, no jury, and a private Chevron prosecutor.” 

Donziger organized the international legal team that won a historic $9.5 billion pollution judgment in Ecuador against Chevron. Multiple courts, and a total of 29 appellate judges in Ecuador and Canada, have ruled that the company is liable for…

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