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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

Pope Francis Makes Environmental Protection Central Theme in Ecuador Visit
Posted on 6 Aug 2015 by E. Lynn Grayson

Pope Francis visited Ecuador and called for increased protection of the Amazon rain forest and in general has made environmental protection a central theme in his comments. Pope Francis noted, “The tapping of natural resources, which are so abundant... Read More

Second Circuit Explains Its Decision Reversing the Grant of Injunction To Enforce $18 Billion Award Against Chevron
Posted on 2 Feb 2012 by Cadwalader OneWorld International Practice

By Louis M. Solomon, Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Chevron Corp. v. Hugo Gerardo Camacho Naranjo , et al., No. 11-1150-cv(L), is the Second Circuit's decision explaining its ruling earlier in 2011 to reverse the District Court's... 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

Second Circuit Explains Its Decision Reversing the Grant of Injunction To Enforce $18 Billion Award Against Chevron
Posted on 2 Feb 2012 by Cadwalader OneWorld International Practice

By Louis M. Solomon, Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Chevron Corp. v. Hugo Gerardo Camacho Naranjo , et al., No. 11-1150-cv(L), is the Second Circuit's decision explaining its ruling earlier in 2011 to reverse the District Court's... Read More