Litigation
Feb. 5, 2009
An Oil Company Manages to Beat Back Alien Tort Act Claim
An oil company that beat back an Alien Tort Act Claim tops our list of the top defense verdicts of 2008.
Daily Journal Staff Writer It took almost 10 years for Nigerian villagers to get the chance to present their human rights claims against San Ramon-based Chevron Corp. to a San Francisco federal jury. It took about nine hours of deliberations for the jurors to reject those claims. Robert A. Mittelstaedt, partner-in-charge of Jones Day's San Francisco office, led Chevron's defense in a closely watched case that began on an ...
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