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Article

20 Sep 2011

Author:
David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle

U.S. court rules against Chevron in Ecuador case

Ecuadorans suing Chevron Corp. over pollution in the Amazon rain forest are one step closer to collecting a $9.5 billion judgment against the…company. A U.S. appeals court on Monday lifted a lower court's order that had blocked the Ecuadorans from collecting money in the long-running lawsuit. In February, a judge in Ecuador ruled that Chevron should pay to clean up contamination in the oil fields where Texaco, bought by Chevron in 2001, once worked. But the company persuaded a U.S. judge to block enforcement, arguing that the verdict was the result of fraud. Chevron even filed a criminal conspiracy case against the Ecuadorans. Monday's order…put that case on hold. It also lifted the injunction…that had prevented the Ecuadorans from collecting the massive judgment against Chevron. [also refers to Petroecuador]

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