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2007
South America Brazil
Access to Justice
Corporate Accountability
Mining Coal mining Reclamation and closure
Procedural Issues Strict liability
Complex litigation seeking remediation of environmental damages from large-scale coal mining in which Brazil's Superior Court of Justice held the mining companies strictly liable and the federal government jointly liable with a duty to make the companies pay for remediation while concluding that the owners and managers of the companies have supplemental liability if the companies can't fulfill duty to remedy environmental damages and concluding that collective actions for environmental remediation are not subject to statutes of limitations.
2002
South America Ecuador
Procedural Issues Strict liability

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