In September 2020, the palm oil company Energy & Palm filed a lawsuit for damages against community leaders and human rights defenders: José Teodoro Pachito Bennett, Antonio Olivero Mina Caicedo, Luis Fernando Quintero Mina, Julio Javier Caveza Quintero, Andrés Humberto Arce Quintero, and Nestor Javier Caicedo Caicedo, members of the Barranquilla de San Javier community located in the canton of San Lorenzo, Province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador. The company demanded compensation of approximately $ 320,000 for the alleged violation of private property. This case is related to the peaceful resistance that the community has carried out to demand the company withdraw from its communal territories and repair the damage to the Rights of Nature due to the cutting down of the Chocó Forest and the pollution of the land, rivers, and air by both the palm plantation and the oil extraction. In August 2021, the case was still ongoing.