a small victory for the little guy...........read more from courthouse news...
"After some successes in New York's Southern District, the 2nd Circuit put a halt to a trial on whether to permanently block the Ecuadoreans from collecting the award. The federal appeals court also struck down an existing preliminary injunction.
On Thursday, the three-judge panel refused to revisit its September decision, to the exultation of the Ecuadoreans.
The Ecuadorean communities affected by Chevron's contamination are one step closer to justice as a result of today's ruling," their spokeswoman, Karen Hinton, said in a statement. "For almost two decades, Chevron has stood in the way of a comprehensive cleanup of billions of gallons of crude oil and toxic wastewater it deliberately dumped into the pristine rainforest. Thousands of people have died or suffered as the oil giant and its legions of lawyers have fought to distract attention from the overwhelming evidence against the company."
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