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Yale Environment 360: The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear Chevron Corp.’s challenge of an $18.2 billion judgment issued by an Ecuadorian court over large-scale damages caused by oil drilling in the Amazon. The Supreme Court decision is the latest development in a long legal battle that led to a ruling last year by an Ecuadorean court that Chevron had to pay the damages for massive oil dumping by Texaco, which Chevron acquired in 2001. Chevron was challenging a ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in......
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U.S. Supreme Court Refuses Chevron Challenge of Ecuador Damages
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 10th, 2012
Posted in Water Conservation