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October 10, 2012

Supreme Court Declines to Block Chevron’s $18 Billion Fine for Ecuador Pollution 
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The Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling denying the oil giant
Chevron's bid to block an $18 billion fine for polluting Ecuador’s
rain forest since the 1970s. Amazonian residents won the judgment last
year after a long-running case seeking damages for Chevron’s dumping
of billions of gallons of toxic oil waste. The initial ruling called on
Chevron to pay $8.6 billion, but then rose to more than double that
amount after Chevron failed to apologize. Chevron was appealing a lower
court decision that threw out an injunction the company had won to block
enforcement of the fine, but on Tuesday the Supreme Court dismissed the
appeal without comment.

 

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