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Showing posts with label Chevron Corporation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chevron Corporation. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Judge denies jury trial in Chevron RICO case

Today's post was shared by Legal Newsline and comes from legalnewsline.com


The federal judge overseeing a fraud lawsuit filed by Chevron Corp. has decided to deny the defendants in the case a jury trial.

The trial is set to begin Oct. 15.

Now, instead of pleading their case in front of a jury, New York attorney Steven Donziger and the Ecuadorians must do so before Judge Lewis Kaplan for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

In his seven-page memorandum opinion Monday, Kaplan declined to order a jury trial in the case.
Last week, Chevron said it would drop money damages claims against Donziger if Kaplan tried the case. The oil giant already said it would drop money damages claims against the two Ecuadorians, Hugo Gerardo Camacho Naranjo and Javier Piaguaje Payaguaje.

Donziger and the Ecuadorians argued they are entitled to a jury as a matter of fairness.
“But that argument — even if it had merit, which it does not — is beside the point,” Kaplan wrote. “Insofar as is relevant to this case, the availability of trial by jury depends on one thing alone — whether the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution requires it.”

It does not, the judge said.

Kaplan explained that when a party — in this case, Chevron — withdraws its damages claims and pursues only equitable relief, a jury trial is no longer available and issues must be tried by the court.
“In such circumstances, trial by jury is available only if the parties and...
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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Largest Verdict in US Asbestos History $322 Million Awarded by a Jury

A Mississippi jury has awarded a worker injured by asbestos $322 Million last week. This is the largest single asbestos award in the history.

The worker filed claims against Chevron Phillips Chemical (CP Chem and Carbide Corporation. He was employed in the oil fields in 1979 (at age 16) and mid 1980's and exposed to asbestos fiber. The worker was diagnosed with asbestosis, a progressive lung disease, caused by the exposure to asbestos fiber. 


Asbestos, for decades, has been linked to asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma. Mesothelioma remains an incurable and fatal disease. Asbestos is one of the modern world’s most historic occupational medical disasters. Not only is it well documented, it continues not to be banned in the US.

For over 3 decades the Law Offices of Jon L. Gelman  1.973.696.7900  jon@gelmans.com have been representing injured workers and their families who have suffered asbestos related disease.


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