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    Amazon Tribal Leaders Blast U.S. Judge for Blocking Texaco Pollution Case Vow to Appeal Latest Decision as Health Problems and Cancers in Ecuador Mount from Texaco Drilling Practices Potential Multi-billion Dollar Liability from Lawsuit Poses Obstacle

    New York, New York - A landmark legal battle to force Texaco to clean up oil contamination that is devastating the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador took a new twist today when leaders of affected Indian tribes blasted Federal Judge Jed Rakoff as biased for dismissing the case to Ecuador and vowed to appeal.

    May 31, 2001
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    Judge Dismisses Indians Suits against Texaco

    Reuters | New York - A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed lawsuits against Texaco (NYSE:TX - news) brought by rainforest Indians of Ecuador and Peru who alleged the oil company contaminated their water and land. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff said that the cases should be brought in Ecuador instead of the United States.

    May 30, 2001
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    Chevron's Board Urged to Disclose Texaco's Liabilities in the Ecuadorian Amazon in the Merger Proceedings Evidence Detailing More than Three Hundred and Fifty Contaminated Sites Handed to Chevron's Chairman

    Los Angeles, CA - Chevron's Board of Directors were put on notice at the company's annual meeting yesterday that the company is legally required to notify the SEC and their shareholders of the law suit and the environmental liabilities it would inherit following the merger with Texaco with respect to hundreds of contaminated

    April 26, 2001
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    Le Urgieron a la Junta Directiva de Chevron que se Divulgaran las Responsabilidades de Texaco en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana Durante los Procedimientos de Fusión (Merger) Evidencia Detallando Más de Trescientos Cincuenta Sitios Contaminados Heredados por e

    Los Angeles, CA - Se le aviso a la Junta Directiva de Chevron que se requiere que la compañía notifique legalmente a la Comisión de Seguridades e Intercambio (SEC) – una agencia del gobierno de los Estados Unidos – y a accionistas de Chevron sobre el juicio y las responsabilidades ecológicas que heredaría

    April 26, 2001
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