Legal Opinion
Kennedy Building Associates v. Viacom, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 15, 2004No. 03-1520PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Viacom, Inc., the corporate successor to Westinghouse Electric Corporation, appeals the judgment entered against it for damages and injunctive relief and the awards of attorneys’ fees and prejudgment interest in this suit arising out of Westinghouse’s environmental contamination of a site it once owned in Minneapolis. Kennedy Building Associates, the present owner of the contaminated property, obtained a jury verdict awarding it $225,000 in compensatory damages and $5,000,000 in punitive damages on its common law claim for strict liability. The district court…
2Cases cited41 opinions
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- Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Powell v. McCormackSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Salve Regina College v. RussellSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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3Cited by9 opinions
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