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Chevron Loses Bid in Ecuador Appeals Court
5 January 2012 | San Francisco Chronicle
An Ecuadoran appeals court has upheld last year's landmark $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron Corp. over oil field contamination in the Amazon rain forest. More »
Ecuador Court Upholds Historic Environmental Case Against Chevron
4 January 2012 | Miami Herald
Humberto Piaguaje, a school teacher in Ecuador's Amazon, says he has lost eight family members to cancer. He blames the rash of deaths in his village on river water contaminated by upstream oil operations. More »
Ecuador Court Upholds $8.6 Billion Ruling Against Chevron
4 January 2012 | CNN
An Ecuadorian appeals court upheld an $8.6 billion ruling against oil giant Chevron stemming from claims that the company had a detrimental impact on Amazonian communities where it operated. More »
Chevron's Ecuador Case Takes New Twist
4 January 2012 | Financial Times
Fadel Gheit, an analyst at Oppenheimer in New York, says: "At the very beginning, it didn't look as though the case was going anywhere." Now he expects Chevron to agree to pay $2bn-$3bn to bring the dispute to an end. More »
How Lawyer Arrogance Imperils Chevron Shareholders in Ecuador
3 January 2012 | The Huffington Post
One of the more interesting aspects of the $18 billion Chevron-Ecuador environmental case is how a series of monumental mistakes by the American law firm Gibson Dunn Crutcher have increasingly imperiled the interests of a major client like Chevron and its institutional shareholders. More »
Ecuador Court Ratifies Multibillion Ruling Against Chevron
3 January 2012 | Dow Jones
Houston, TX – An Ecuadorian court on Tuesday ratified a multi-billion dollar ruling issued last year against Chevron, holding the company responsible for environmental and punitive damages stemming from oil operations in Ecuador's Amazon region. More »
Chevron Sanctioned for Abusive Discovery Tactic
7 December 2011 | Courthouse News Service
Chevron must pay an Oregon-based nonprofit more than $32,000 for harassment during discovery related to an $18.2 billion judgment against the oil company for environmental damage in Ecuador, a federal judge ruled. More »
Chevron's Latin America Image Tarnished
23 November 2011 | UPI
San Francisco, CA – Given Chevron's legacy in Ecuador, there's no reason to suspect the U.S. supermajor will act responsibility with Brazil's oil spill, opponents say. More »
Chevron May Rethink Ecuador Strategy after US Court Move on Shell: Analyst
18 October 2011 | Platts
New York, NY – Chevron likely wants a resolution in the ongoing legal dispute over the former Texaco assets in Ecuador, Oppenheimer analyst Fadel Gheit said Tuesday, adding that Monday's US Supreme Court agreeing to hear a case charging Shell for human rights violations in Nigeria could hold implications for Chevron. More »
Chevron Rainforest Case Drags Mud into Local Court
30 September 2011 | The Recorder
The long-running legal battle between Ecuadoreans and Chevron waged in more than a dozen courts in this country and abroad has been full of ugly lawyer fights and allegations of dirty tricks. Now a piece of the multibillion dollar rainforest destruction suit is being fought in Bay Area courts. And it isn't pretty. More »