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Article

30 Apr 2013

Author:
Rita Ann Cicero, in Thomson Reuters blog

Peruvian Indians can pursue Amazon pollution suit in U.S. court

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a federal appeals court’s ruling that Peruvian villagers and a San Francisco-based environmental group can sue Occidental Petroleum Corp. in federal court over its alleged pollution of the Amazon rainforest. In a one-sentence denial, the high court April 22 refused to entertain the oil company’s argument that the case should not be heard in U.S. courts, but in Peru under the doctrine of forum non conveniens. That doctrine allows a federal court to decline jurisdiction where there is a more appropriate forum available to the parties…The plaintiffs allege that because of the contamination, they have developed health problems, including cancer, kidney illness and serious skin conditions...