A federal appeals court on Monday reversed Southern District Judge Lewis Kaplan’s preliminary injunction blocking worldwide enforcement of an $18 billion environmental judgment in Ecuador, according to sibling publication the New York Law Journal.
The reversal came just three days after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard oral arguments in the case, with counsel for Chevron urging that Judge Kaplan’s March injunction remain in place because the Ecuadorean judgment had been procured by a fraud. In its Monday ruling, a three-judge Second Circuit panel vacated the injunction and derailed a November trial on whether to make it permanent, the NYLJ reports.
