Legal Opinion
United States v. Cb & I Constructors, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 29, 2012No. 10-55371PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Defendant CB & I Constructors, Inc., (“CB & I”) negligently caused a June 2002 wildfire that burned roughly 18,000 acres of the Angeles National Forest in Southern California. The United States brought a civil action against CB & I to recover damages for harm caused by the fire. CB & I does not contest its liability or the jury’s award of roughly $7.6 million in fire suppression, emergency mitigation, and resource protection costs. It challenges only the jury’s additional award of $28.8 million in intangible environmental damages.
The district court denied CB…
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