Legal Opinion
Chevron Corporation v. The Republic of Ecuador
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 4, 2015No. 13-7103PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WILKINS.
WILKINS, Circuit Judge:
For the last twenty years, the Republic of Ecuador and energy industry giant Chevron Corporation have been locked in a struggle involving a series of lawsuits related to an investment and development agreement. The dispute began in the Ecuadorian court system, where it languished unresolved for over a decade. It then proceeded to an international arbitration tribunal, whose verdict in Chevron’s favor was appealed and sustained at all levels of the Dutch judiciary. The dispute made it to our shores in an action for…
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