Bloomberg
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s
biggest oil company, must face a lawsuit seeking to hold it
responsible for violations of international law by Nigeria’s
military government, a judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in New York refused today to toss out the case on jurisdictional grounds in a setback for Shell. A trial in the case, which was brought by relatives of human-rights activists killed in Nigeria, is scheduled to begin in New York on May 26...
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