Legal Opinion
Conocophillips Company v. Jeana Parko
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 17, 2014No. 13-8023, 13-8024PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The district court certified a class of property owners in Roxana (a tiny village in southwestern Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis) in a suit against Shell Oil Company, which (together with Shell subsidiaries also joined as defendants) until 2000 owned and operated an oil refinery (the Wood River Refinery, built in 1918) that is adjacent to the village. The suit is also against ConocoPhil-lips (and some of its subsidiaries), which bought the refinery from Shell that year and is its current owner and operator. The plaintiffs claim that the refinery…
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