Chevron Must Pay $120 Million to Family-Owned Oil Company

A Chevron Corp. subsidiary lost its bid for a new trial and must pay $120 million for damaging an oil company’s field, a California appeals court ruled on Friday, emphasizing the importance of efficiency in the jury selection process.

Chevron had requested — and been granted by a lower court — a new trial after it was discovered that one of the jurors that voted to award the $120 million in damages was convicted in Washington for molesting his stepdaughter and failed to register as a sex offender when he moved to California.

Associate Justice Donald R. Franson of ...