기사 Legal Issues: The Right to Consultation and the Texaco Lawsuit 더보기 [in "Ecuador, Defending the Amazon"] 다음 타임라인의 일부 Ecuador, Defending the Amazon The New Oil Pipeline: A Long...
기사 Texaco announces settlement in class action lawsuit [USA] 더보기 Company moving ahead vigorously with broader actions to promote greater diversity, tolerance and economic opportunity 다음...
On March 4, 2014, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the $9.5 billion Ecuadorian judgment was the product of fraud and racketeering activity, finding it unenforceable. The nearly 500-page ruling (1.6 MB) finds that Steven Donziger, the lead American lawyer behind the Ecuadorian lawsuit against the company, violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), committing extortion, money laundering, wire fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practi...
In the glare of scandal, Texaco Inc. on Friday signed what may be the largest settlement of a racial discrimination lawsuit, agreeing to pay an immediate $115 million in damages plus pay raises of...
A billion-dollar lawsuit against the firm was brought by the lawyers for 30,000 Ecuadoreans, who say a Texaco subsidiary - which later merged with Chevron - poured contaminated waste water into open pits. The plaintiffs say the company's activities have destroyed large areas of rainforest and also led to an increased risk of cancer among the local population. ChevronTexaco denies the accusations, and its lawyers say the company had cleaned up the area after drilling the oil. The trial began after almost a decade of legal battles in the United S ...
Everything about the Texaco-Pennzoil case just decided by the U.S. Supreme Court was Texas-sized except the legal issue. The stakes in the dispute between the two companies are nothing less than the continued existence of Texaco. A Texas state court jury in late 1985 ruled that Texaco had illegally interfered with a merger between Pennzoil and Getty Oil Co. and awarded Pennzoil an incredible $10.5 billion in damages. Under Texas law, Pennzoil could begin collecting while Texaco appealed unless T...
In July 2013, Professor Douglas Cassel, representing Chevron in the Texaco/Chevron lawsuits (re Ecuador), wrote a letter to the UN Working Group on business & human rights over alleged lack...
was a class-action lawsuit against Texaco Petroleum. It was filed in 1993 by American human rights lawyer Steven Donziger on behalf of indigenous collectives in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The...
Texaco, Inc. Formerly : The Texas Company (1902–1959) · Texaco (1959–2001) · ChevronTexaco (2001–2005), Company type : Private (1902–2001) · Subsidiary (2001–2005) · Brand (since 2005), Industry : Petroleum, Founded : 1902; 122 years ago (as Texas Fuel Company) in Beaumont, Texas, U.S. Founders : Joseph S. Cullinan · Lewis Henry Lapham · Arnold Schlaet, Fate : Acquired by Chevron Corporation in October 2001, changed to "ChevronTexaco" until 2005, when it became a brand of i...
Texaco, Inc. ("The Texa s Co mpany") is an American oil brand owned and... Its flagship product is its fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an...