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Law Practice

Oct. 30, 2008

Chevron Says Military Needed to Protect Workers

In a landmark human rights abuse trial that began Tuesday with opening statements in San Francisco federal court, Robert A. Mittelstaedt, a Jones Day lawyer, represents Chevron Corp. against Nigerian protesters. They claim their rights were violated when Chevron had them forcibly removed from an off-shore oil rig in 1998.

By Rebecca Beyer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - When 150 Nigerian men used speedboats to reach a Chevron oil platform nine miles off the coast of their country, were they acting as concerned citizens or sea pirates?

When they boarded the platform and a connecting barge and spent three days there, were they peaceful protesters or violent invaders?

And, after Chevron called the Nigerian military to remove the men, and some of the...

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