Legal Opinion
Johansen v. Combustion Engineering, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 1, 1999No. 97-8726PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HILL, Senior Circuit Judge:
Property owners brought a nuisance and trespass action against the present owner of a former mining site, Combustion Engineering, Inc. (“CE”), alleging that acidic water had escaped from the site, damaging streams that run through their properties. The jury awarded the owners an aggregate of $47,000 in compensatory damages and $45 million in punitive damages which the district court reduced to $4.35 million. All parties have appealed.
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In the 1920’s, a company named Tiffany’s mined a site in Lincoln County, Georgia for rutile, a substance used for polishing diamonds.…
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