Legal Opinion
In Re Oil Spill by the "Amoco Cadiz"
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided June 4, 1979No. MDL No. 3139PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
2Per curiam
I. BACKGROUND
This litigation consists of six actions pending in three districts: three actions in the Southern District of New York, two actions in the Eastern District of Virginia, and one action in the Northern District of Illinois.
On March 16, 1978, the tanker Amoco Cadiz, while under tow after having lost both an anchor and its hydraulic steering mechanism, went aground on rocks off the northwest coast of France. In rough water, the disabled ship broke apart on the rocks and disgorged its cargo of approximately 220,000 tons of crude oil, causing extensive environmental…
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