Chevron demands $32m legal fees from Ecuadorian villagers

The company has had a win in the US Supreme Court but still faces litigation in other jurisdictions.

Ksenia Ragozina

Chevron Corporation has demanded $32 million in lawyers' fees following its win in the US Supreme Court against Ecuadorian villagers who claim the company is liable for massive oil pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The Supreme Court refused to take up the case, which has been ongoing since 1993 when a group of US lawyers sued Texaco (later bought by Chevron) for massive contamination of a large area of rainforest in Ecuador and which the Ecuadorian trial court found Chevron guilty in 2011. The company is represented by Gubson Dunn's Randy Mastro and is still facing ongoing litigation in Brazil and Canada. 

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