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Federal jury clears Chevron of Nigeria abuses
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. Human rights groups had sued the San Ramon-based company under a centuries-old law allowing foreigners to file lawsuits in U.S. courts alleging...
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- News Source: San Francisco Chronicle | 12 months agoTwo men were killed and two were wounded by security forces summoned by Chevron after three days of negotiations with leaders of about 150 tribesmen from the oil-rich Niger Delta. Villagers and their supporting witnesses said they were unarmed and...
- News Source: The Mercury News | 12 months agoHuman rights groups had hoped this case would be the first successful use at trial of the Alien Tort Claims Act, adopted in 1789 as part of the original laws that created the federal judicial system. The act gathered dust for nearly 200 years, with...
- News Source: MarketWatch | 12 months agoDistrict Court in California nearly a decade ago, alleging torture, negligence and degrading treatment. Bowoto and others, represented by organizations including EarthRights International, claim that protesters occupying Chevron's Parabe platform in...
- News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal | 12 months agoA San Francisco federal jury Monday found that Chevron Corp. was not legally responsible for the 1998 deaths of Nigerian protesters on one of its offshore platforms. The case is a high-profile blow to the fairly new legal theory that multinational...
- News Source: The Boston Globe | 12 months agoA jury in U.S. federal court on Monday cleared Chevron Corp
of liability charges arising from a violent clash on one of its oil platforms off the coast of Nigeria 10 years ago. The charges stemmed from May 1998, when about 100 people --... - News Source: Merced Sun-Star | 12 months agoA 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. Human rights groups had sued the San Ramon-based company under a centuries-old law...
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