The paper writes again on the Chevron Ecuador case, this time focusing in on the courts in the United States that have called the lawsuit into serious question:
“There is no international law requirement that a court in one country has to enforce a judgment from a court in [another] country,” said Duncan Hollis, associate dean for academic affairs at the Temple University Law School and a former State Department lawyer.
“It is going to be very difficult for a judge to deal with” enforcing a judgment, Hollis said, “because the allegations are quite strong and might lead one to conclude that this case [in Ecuador] was not getting a full and fair hearing.”
The problem, as Hollis described it, is that U.S. judges recognize foreign judgments only if they emerge from countries that apply similar standards of justice.
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