Monday, October 20, 2008

Corporate Liability Key in Chevron Case

Focus on protest deaths at Nigerian facility


Pamela A. MacLean
The National Law Journal
October 20, 2008

An epic legal battle going to trial in federal court in San Francisco this week will ask jurors to decide whether oil giant Chevron Corp. sanctioned human rights abuses that killed and wounded protesters at its Nigerian facilities, or was simply protecting its employees from belligerent kidnappers.

The decade-long legal fight has produced a 2,000-item court docket with mountains of paper in what may become a rare, and potentially precedent-setting, test of company liability for injuries to foreign nationals at the hands of a foreign government.

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