Southern District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan yesterday issued a preliminary injunction that bars Ecuadorian plaintiffs and their law firm, Patton Boggs, from seeking to enforce outside of Ecuador a $9.5 billion award issued by an Ecuadorian court against Chevron for environmental damage caused by a predecessor oil company in that country.
The preliminary injunction takes effect immediately but its continuing in place beyond March 15 is conditioned on Chevron’s posting of a security bond.
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