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Ecuador Oil Pollution Claim Can Try Again To Collect From Chevron In Canada
Posted on 31 Mar 2014 by Dianne Saxe

By Meredith James Indigenous Ecuadorian villagers can try again to enforce a controversial $18 billion environmental damage award against Texaco (now merged with Chevron Corp., one of the world’s largest corporations) in Canada. This is part... Read More

Supreme Court Allows Ecuador Pollution Plaintiffs to Sue Chevron Canada
Posted on 29 Sep 2015 by Dianne Saxe

The Supreme Court of Canada has allowed Ecuador pollution plaintiffs to try to seek enforcement against Chevron Canada of a multibillion-dollar damage award against Chevron Corporation for oil pollution in Ecuador: Chevron Corp. v. Yaiguaje . According... Read More

Supreme Court Hears Chevron Ecuador Pollution Appeal
Posted on 24 Feb 2015 by Dianne Saxe

Can foreign pollution judgments be enforced in Canada? The Supreme Court of Canada has heard arguments on the attempt by Ecuador pollution plaintiffs to enforce their $9 plus billion Ecuador judgment against Chevron’s Canadian assets, in Chevron... Read More

LexisNexis® Legal News Podcast - Chevron and California Reach Settlement on Underground Gasoline Storage Tanks
Posted on 19 Sep 2011 by LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff

California announces a proposed $24.5 million settlement with Chevron owners involving underground gasoline storage tanks (third story in podcast at 3:40), and the Mississippi Supreme Court reverses a multi-million lead verdict against Sherwin-Williams... Read More

Preliminary Injunction to Stay Ecuadorian Judgment Against Chevron in Amazonian Rain Forest Environmental Damage Case is Vacated by Second Circuit
Posted on 3 Oct 2011 by Cadwalader OneWorld International Practice

By Louis M. Solomon, Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP We have written on District Judge Kaplan's decision earlier this year - a 127-page decision preliminary enjoining enforcement, anywhere in the world, of an Ecuadorian judgment... Read More

Preliminary Injunction to Stay Ecuadorian Judgment Against Chevron in Amazonian Rain Forest Environmental Damage Case is Vacated by Second Circuit
Posted on 3 Oct 2011 by Cadwalader OneWorld International Practice

By Louis M. Solomon, Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP We have written on District Judge Kaplan's decision earlier this year - a 127-page decision preliminary enjoining enforcement, anywhere in the world, of an Ecuadorian judgment... Read More

LexisNexis® Legal News Podcast - Chevron and California Reach Settlement on Underground Gasoline Storage Tanks
Posted on 19 Sep 2011 by LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff

California announces a proposed $24.5 million settlement with Chevron owners involving underground gasoline storage tanks (third story in podcast at 3:40), and the Mississippi Supreme Court reverses a multi-million lead verdict against Sherwin-Williams... Read More