US Supreme Court turns down Nigeria oil protest case
American Politics, Headlines Monday, April 23rd, 2012The United States Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal by 19 Nigerians seeking to invoke a US anti-torture law to sue oil giant, Chevron, over deaths in the Niger Delta.
The decision by the top US court not to intervene followed its unanimous finding last week that the law, the Torture Victim Protection Act only allowed lawsuits against individuals, not corporations or organizations.
The plaintiffs had claimed they and their loved ones suffered deaths and injuries in the hands of Nigerian military personnel, who used brutal force to crack down on an offshore oil platform protest in the Niger Delta in 1998.
The plaintiffs, in the case, Bowoto had alleged that Chevron’s Nigeria subsidiary backed the military action and that the US parent company should be held liable.
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