Court scraps multibillion-dollar Ecuador damages against Chevron

[Bacchus4.0]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/court-scraps-multibillion-dollar-ecuador-damages-against-chevron-194504618.html


Quito (AFP) - An appeals court in The Hague has cancelled $9.5 billion in damages handed down by an Ecuadoran court against American energy giant Chevron for causing oil pollution in the Amazon jungle, Quito said Friday.

The original ruling dates back to 2011 and was twice upheld on appeal in Ecuador, but Chevron took its protest to The Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration, claiming it had already been exonerated of any wrongdoing.

The Dutch court decided Ecuador was guilty of "denial of justice" and ordered it to annul its sentence against Chevron, Ecuador's public prosecutor Inigo Salvador said.

Chevron's lawyers had argued that the plaintiffs had "promised payments" to an Ecuadoran judge "in return for being permitted to draft significant portions" of the ruling against the American multi-national.

[PaulX2]

1. Chevron Killed / Poisoned Tens Of Thousands - But Who Cares

https://amazonwatch.org/work/chevron

Corporations kill for profit.

Same old story.

[Pachamama]

2. This is very very sad and bad news indeed

[lark]

3. Way too many judges reflexively rule for oligarchs because that's what they are.

The rich appointed by the rich to take care of the rest of the rich and fuck over everyone else.