{"id":1694,"date":"2007-06-07T09:43:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T08:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/07\/suit-against-chevron-gets-go-ahead\/"},"modified":"2007-06-11T09:52:32","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T08:52:32","slug":"suit-against-chevron-gets-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/06\/07\/suit-against-chevron-gets-go-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Suit against Chevron gets go-ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2007\/06\/07\/BUGIHQAH2O1.DTL&amp;type=business\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"070611_chevron-nigeria.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/070611_chevron-nigeria.jpg\" title=\"070611_chevron-nigeria.jpg\" alt=\"070611_chevron-nigeria.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><span id=\"bodytext\" class=\"georgia md\">Chevron Corp. can be sued in a U.S. court for a subsidiary&#8217;s alleged  collusion with the Nigerian government in attacks that killed and wounded  villagers protesting the oil company&#8217;s practices, a federal judge in San  Francisco has ruled. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston had previously ruled in 2004 that the  lawsuit against the San Ramon parent company could proceed, saying a jury  should be allowed to decide whether Chevron&#8217;s control over its subsidiary was  so extensive that the company should be held responsible for any wrongdoing. Chevron sought reconsideration, citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling later  in 2004 that limited the scope of the Alien Tort Statute, a law passed by the  first Congress in 1789 that allowed foreigners to sue in U.S. courts for  international human rights violations. The company also argued that evidence  uncovered since Illston&#8217;s original ruling dispelled any connection between the  parent company and the bloodshed in Nigeria. Image source: ratical.org<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">Country: USA, Nigeria | Company: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=6\" class=\"LinkBluePgtMedium\">Chevron<\/a><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2007\/06\/07\/BUGIHQAH2O1.DTL&amp;type=business\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"LinkBluePgtMedium\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chevron Corp. can be sued in a U.S. court for a subsidiary&#8217;s alleged collusion with the Nigerian government in attacks that killed and wounded villagers protesting the oil company&#8217;s practices, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston had previously ruled in 2004 that the lawsuit against the San Ramon&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-chevron","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}