Swiss specialty chemicals company Clariant announced that the Amsterdam District Court has dismissed in its entirety Shell’s damages claim against Clariant and three other defendants. The court also rejected a related declaratory judgment claim brought by the Stichting Ethylene Claims litigation vehicle. The BackgroundThe dispute has its origins in a July 2020 European Commission competition case. SWI swissinfo.chA Blow to One Claim—Not the Entire LitigationThe Amsterdam ruling does not bring the broader litigation to an end. The Amsterdam District Court has now concluded that, in Shell’s case against Clariant, that threshold was not met.