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A federal jury has cleared Chevron Corp. of responsibility for any human rights abuses during a violent protest on a company oil platform in Nigeria a decade ago. The verdict on Monday...
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- Blog Source: www.thetimesofnigeria.comA federal jury on Monday cleared Chevron Corp. of responsibility for human rights abuses during a violent protest on one of the company's oil platforms off the coast of Nigeria more than 10 years ago. ...
- Blog Source: www.eleconomista.esThe case was brought against San Ramon, California-based Chevron under the Alien Tort Claims Act, a law that dates back to 1789 and allows foreigners to sue over human rights abuses committed by or on behalf of U.S. organizations. ...
- Blog Source: lawandmore.typepad.comToday, in the human-rights case "Bowoto v. Chevron" a jury in a San Francisco federal court found in favor of Chevron. It represents a major test for the Alien Tort Claims Act. That Act permits non-U.S. residents to file lawsuits in ...
- Blog Source: justiceinnigeria.wordpress.comChevron case represented a watershed in terms of corporate accountability. The details of the Nigerian case – of human rights abuses in the global operations of the oil and gas industry – can be replicated many times over in different ...
- Blog Source: planetsave.comChevron Acquitted in Nigerian Human Rights Case, Appeal Expected. Written by Alex Felsinger. Published on December 2nd, 2008. Posted in War & Conflict. A federal jury ruled yesterday that Chevron had done nothing wrong a decade ago when ...
- Blog Source: www.pointoflaw.comThis month lawyers working for Larry Bowoto will argue in a San Francisco courtroom that Chevron engaged in human rights violations when it hired Nigerian soldiers in 1998 to forcefully remove Bowoto and his unarmed group from a ...
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