Legal Opinion
Long Island Lighting Co. v. New England Petroleum Corp.
New York Supreme Court
Decided December 10, 1974PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLeonard Leigh Finz, J.
The sole issue to be determined in this motion is whether an action instituted in Nassau County by the Long Island Lighting Company (hereinafter Lilco) seeking damages against the New England Petroleum Company (hereinafter Nepeo) in the sum of $62,000,000 should be transferred to another county for trial.
A resolution of this difficult question requires a brief review of the factual predicate to this huge litigation. Recently, the American people faced one of the worst oil shortages ever reported. Without characterizing the legitimacy of this crisis, the public suffered through long and…
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