City of Neodesha v. BP Corp. North America

*300The opinion of the court was delivered by

Biles, J.:

All persons and entities owning real property in and around the City of Neodesha, Kansas, brought a class action against the owners of a former oil refinery, alleging groundwater and subsurface soil contamination caused by the now dismantled facility. A jury found in the defendants’ favor after a 17-week trial. But in posttrial proceedings, the district court decided it had made a mistake in submitting the strict liability claim to the jury, and it granted the plaintiff class judgment as a matter of law on its strict liability claim, setting…