Chevron’s Ecuador Defendants Are Denied Jury Trial by Court
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Chevron Corp. won a request to have a judge rather than a jury decide its case over alleged fraud in an Ecuadorian pollution verdict.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan ruled today that the Ecuadorians and their legal adviser, Steven Donziger, don’t have a constitutional right to a jury trial because the San Ramon, California-based company isn’t seeking damages.