Law360, New York (November 03, 2009) -- Chevron USA Inc. cannot plead guilty to violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act in a case over brown pelicans that were discovered to have died in a structure it built to protect an oil wellhead in Louisiana, a federal judge has ruled.
Magistrate Judge C. Michael Hill of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on Friday denied Chevron's tender of a guilty plea, ruling that strict liability under...
