{"id":492025,"date":"2010-03-31T00:35:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T04:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11751"},"modified":"2010-03-31T00:35:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T04:35:52","slug":"chevron-wins-round-one-against-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/492025","title":{"rendered":"Chevron Wins Round One Against Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is just the <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN3015829020100330?type=marketsNews\">first round<\/a> of a potentially huge investor-state arbitration claim filed by Chevron against Ecuador. $700 million now, but up to $27 billion later. (For some background, see <a href=\"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/2009\/09\/25\/chevron-strikes-back-against-ecuador\/\">here<\/a> and here about a federal court&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/2010\/03\/12\/using-arbitration-to-promote-due-process-and-challenge-foreign-judgments\/\">refusal<\/a> to stay one of the arbitration proceedings.).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Chevron Corp (<span id=\"symbol_CVX.N_0\"><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/finance\/stocks\/overview?symbol=CVX.N\">CVX.N<\/a><\/span>) won a three-year-old arbitration fight against Ecuador over a commercial dispute as it battles the country separately over an environmental claim that may result in $27 billion in damages against the company.<\/p>\n<p>An arbitration panel ruled on Tuesday that Ecuador&#8217;s courts violated international law by delaying rulings on commercial disputes between the U.S. oil company and Ecuador&#8217;s government, and awarded Chevron $700 million.<\/p>\n<p>The arbitration panel partially resolved seven claims that Texaco, bought by Chevron in 2001, filed in Ecuador from 1991 to 1993, Chevron said. The panel found that the courts had breached a U.S.-Ecuador treaty by not ruling on the cases.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/elLXaOb2pdI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku This is just the first round of a potentially huge investor-state arbitration claim filed by Chevron against Ecuador. $700 million now, but up to $27 billion later. (For some background, see here and here about a federal court&#8217;s refusal to stay one of the arbitration proceedings.). Chevron Corp (CVX.N) won a three-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}