Legal Opinion
Coffey v. Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc.
District Court, W.D. Oklahoma
Decided April 27, 2009No. CIV-08-0640-HEPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
JOE HEATON, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, Oklahoma citizens, filed this class action in state court asserting nuisance, trespass, strict liability and unjust enrichment claims, based on the defendants’ alleged contamination of their property through operation of the Blackwell Zinc Smelter in Blackwell, Oklahoma. The defendants are Blackwell Zinc Company, Inc. (“BZC”), the company that operated the smelter, its parent companies and their successor corporations — Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc., Phelps Dodge Corp., Cyprus Amax Minerals Co., and Amax, Inc., — the Blackwell Industrial…
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