Posts Tagged ‘Litigation’

If the court rules in Shell’s favor, it would have a profound chilling effect on First Amendment rights across the country. Nothing would stop other corporations from taking similar preemptive legal action against anyone they deem to be likely protesters. This case isn’t just about the fate of the Arctic. It is about the state [...]

This is a brief update about OSSL, a company employed for some years by Shell EP Ireland as a “Mr Fixit” (distributor of Shell bribes) used to ease the progress of the controversial, hopelessly delayed and billions over-budget, Shell led Corrib Gas Project in Ireland By John Donovan This is a brief update about OSSL, [...]

BP Plc, Statoil and Royal Dutch Shell Plcwere named in a lawsuit accusing them of manipulating the price of North Sea Brent crude oil and futures contracts. Smith claimed the oil companies violated U.S. antitrust law and the Commodity Exchange Act. He is seeking unspecified damages, which may be tripled under antitrust law. BP, Shell, [...]

FROM THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS RECORD By David Yates: May 27, 2013 9:02 PM With a trial slated for September, discovery is still ongoing in litigation brought against Motiva Enterprises, which alleges the company discriminated against a black Port Arthur woman by allowing a white male certain privileges.� As previously reported, Carolyn Warwick filed a lawsuit [...]

EMAIL RECEIVED BY JOHN DONOVAN Hello John and good-afternoon from Brazil! I don�t know whether you have been told or not but Shell and Basf have come to a judicial agreement and has paid for our rights along with medical assistance for direct former employees and its children for a lifetime. Thank you so much [...]

Documents seen by The IoS support claims energy giant enlisted help of country’s military government By Andy Rowell Sunday 14 June 2009 Serious questions over Shell Oil’s alleged involvement in human rights abuses in Nigeria emerged last night after confidential internal documents and court statements revealed how the energy giant enlisted the help of the [...]

By John Donovan The owners of The OSSL Company who have blown the whistle on a massive police corruption scandal in Ireland sponsored by Shell, are intending to confront the board of Royal Dutch Shell Plc at the AGM being held in The Hague on Tuesday 21 May. Desmond Kane and Neil Rooney of OSSL [...]

Our arch-critic, LondonLad, who has been posting comments on our Shell Blog for many years under his current or former alias, mostly highly critical of our articles, has stated: “I genuinely salute the Donovan�s for inserting comments on the Blog from the likes of myself.” Unlike Royal Dutch Shell, we are receptive to criticism. Sometimes [...]

Thursday, April 25, 2013 Mumbai: Global oil major Royal Dutch Shell Thursday said it has moved the Bombay High Court here, challenging the USD 1 billion demand made by the tax authorities on a four-year-old equity infusion. “Shell confirms that it has filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court challenging the draft tax [...]

There are also secret documents to prove how Shell tried to bribe my husband in an executive meeting at the government house in Port Harcourt, when they planned to arrest and kill Ken Saro-Wiwa. And when they did not succeed, they turned around to mastermind the killing of the Ogoni 4, in a bid to [...]

I remember the launch of another wonder fuel by Shell in 1986, �Formula Shell�, based on new technology and with a scientific image deliberately conjured up by Shell. There was only one small problem. The new wonder fuel ruined many car engines and it did so on an international basis. By John Donovan The Telegraph [...]

The US Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit against the Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum Company brought by alleged human rights victims. The ruling, which was handed down last Wednesday, is seen as a serious setback for the Ogoni community in the Niger Delta, who alleged gross human rights abuses during the mid-1990s by the military government [...]

Although they wrote separately, the four liberal Justices also voted to dismiss the lawsuit against Shell, despite allegations of Shell�s complicity in blood-curdling atrocities. By Julian Ku & John Yoo: 4/21/2013 The Supreme Court�s unanimous decision�last week to dismiss a lawsuit alleging human rights violations by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria is already being portrayed [...]

�Extraterritoriality: Some good news for multinationals Apr 20th 2013 | ATLANTA |From the print edition BETWEEN the administrations of George Washington and Jimmy Carter, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) lay dormant. The statute grants American district courts jurisdiction over �any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law [...]