Today a federal court in San Francisco dismissed in its entirety a lawsuit Chevron Corporation filed against Cristobal Bonifaz, a human rights lawyer who had previously lost a case he filed against the energy giant. The earlier action was filed on behalf of indigenous residents of the Ecuador Amazon rainforest over their claims they became ill with cancer from oil pollution of their water supply. The claims were later dismissed, and Chevron…filed the current lawsuit against their lawyer…claiming he knew there was no basis for the environmental case… The Court ruled that…Chevron was unable to produce any evidence that suggested he knew one of the plaintiffs did not have cancer…Chevron will be required to pay the legal expenses Mr. Bonifaz incurred…