ELR Citation: 42 ELR 20026
No(s). 11-150 (2d Cir. Jan 26, 2012)

The Second Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction enjoining residents from the Lago Agrio region of the Ecuadorian Amazon from enforcing a multibillion dollar judgment awarded by an Ecuadorian court against an oil company for environmental pollution. Below, the court ruled that absent a preliminar...