Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP (JD Supra Ecuador)

In the environmental litigation pending against Chevron in Ecuador, the Court has issued a ruling showing respect but no deference to the international arbitral interim injunction issued against Ecuador on Jan. 25, 2012 (we posted on the subsequent interim award on 2/27/12).  The decision, translated in the attached link, deserves attention for practitioners in international...

In the ongoing battles between Chevron and Ecuadorian plaintiffs and, relatedly, with Ecuador itself, an international arbitration tribunal has issued a Second Interim Award on Interim Measures.  The matter is captioned, In the matter of arbitration  before a tribunal consistituted in accordance with the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Republic of Ecuador...

In re Republic of Ecuador and Dr. Diego Garcia Carrion’s Application Under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1782, 2:11-mc-00052 (GSA) (E.D. Cal. 2011), is an application the Ecuador among others to take the testimony in the U.S. of one Douglas M. Mackay.  Chevron moved to stay the discovery application.   The use to be made of the discovery is in connection with the international...

We have posted several times on the U.S. aspects of the international dispute between Chevron and the plaintiffs from Ecuador suing for environmental contamination. We have followed the Southern District’s decision granting an injunction as well as the Second Circuit’s reversal of that decision. We predicted U.S. reaction to the District Court’s negative statements about the Ecuadorian judiciary,