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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

Tags: Ecuador , Third Circuit Court of Appeals , Texaco , rain forest , Louis Solomon , Lago Agrio , environmental damage , preliminary injunction , Second Circuit Court of Appeals , Chevron , Cadwalader Wickersham , crude

Ninth Circuit Holds that Dry Cleaning Equipment Manufacturers Must Engage in Active, Not Merely Passive, Activities to be Liable Under RCRA
Posted on 19 Mar 2012 by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.

In litigation involving soil and/or groundwater contamination from releases related to dry cleaning equipment and PCE, it has been common for injured property owners to sue the dry cleaning equipment manufacturers, among others. One of the primary legal... Read More

Tags: Thomas Clarke , soil , environmental contamination , dry clean , environmental damage , manufacturer , active , groundwater , environmental cleanup , environmental impact , passive , Clean Water Act , RCRA , clean water

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

Tags: Ecuador , Chevron Corporation v Hugo Gerardo Camacho Naranjo , China Trade , rain forest , Louis Solomon , international comity , environmental damage , preliminary injunction , Second Circuit Court of Appeals , Cadwalader Wickersham , foreign judgment

Ninth Circuit Holds that Dry Cleaning Equipment Manufacturers Must Engage in Active, Not Merely Passive, Activities to be Liable Under RCRA
Posted on 19 Mar 2012 by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.

In litigation involving soil and/or groundwater contamination from releases related to dry cleaning equipment and PCE, it has been common for injured property owners to sue the dry cleaning equipment manufacturers, among others. One of the primary legal... Read More

Tags: Thomas Clarke , soil , environmental contamination , dry clean , environmental damage , manufacturer , active , groundwater , environmental cleanup , environmental impact , passive , Clean Water Act , RCRA , clean water

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

Tags: Ecuador , Third Circuit Court of Appeals , Texaco , rain forest , Louis Solomon , Lago Agrio , environmental damage , preliminary injunction , Second Circuit Court of Appeals , Chevron , Cadwalader Wickersham , crude

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

Tags: Ecuador , Chevron Corporation v Hugo Gerardo Camacho Naranjo , China Trade , rain forest , Louis Solomon , international comity , environmental damage , preliminary injunction , Second Circuit Court of Appeals , Cadwalader Wickersham , foreign judgment