The intent of New York law, bolstered by the principles of international comity, denied U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan the authority to block throughout the world the enforcement of a $17.2 billion environmental judgment secured against Chevron Inc. in Ecuador that the judge thought might have been obtained by fraud, a federal appeals court explained on Thursday.
Following through on a September ruling vacating a preliminary injunction issued by Kaplan, a unanimous panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a declaratory judgment complaint by Chevron.
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