Thursday, March 6, 2014
Federal judge blocks US courts from enforcing Chevron judgment
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Tuesday that US courts could not be used to collect $9.51 billion in fines and legal fees that previously resulted in an Ecuadorian court's judgment against Chevron [corporate website]. Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in his near 500-page ruling that the punishment inflicted against Chevron did not justify the means, and that the Ecuadorian court's judgement "was obtained by corrupt means."...
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