Canada’s highest court pushed a reset button Friday on a group of Ecuadorean villagers’ quest to enforce a $9.5 billion environmental judgment based on accusations that Chevron ravished the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
The Supreme Court of Canada held that Ontario courts have jurisdiction over a lawsuit that the Ecuadorean plaintiffs filed in 2012 as an attempt to collect on the mega-judgment against the energy giant.
The plaintiffs, villagers from Ecuador’s rural Lago Agrio region, had in 2011 secured a ruling from an Ecuadorean court that put Chevron on the hook for $19 billion, although that amount was slashed on appeal to... Read more
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