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2011年4月19日

作者:
Dan Levine, Reuters

Judge dismisses firm's lawsuit against Chevron [USA]

Chevron Corp will not have to face accusations from a prominent U.S. law firm that the oil major mounted a "smear campaign" related to long-running environmental battles in Ecuador, a U.S. judge has ruled. Patton Boggs, a…firm representing Ecuadorean plaintiffs suing Chevron, had filed a separate lawsuit saying the company had tried to improperly interfere with its ability to represent the clients. A judge in Ecuador's Amazon in February ruled against Chevron, demanding that the company pay $8.6 billion for contamination from petroleum drilling in the 1970s and 1980s by Texaco [now part of Chevron]…Patton Boggs had asked a U.S. judge to rule that its representation of the Ecuadoreans was proper…But U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. granted Chevron's bid to dismiss the lawsuit on Tuesday.