Legal Opinion
Barnes Ex Rel. Estate of Barnes v. Koppers, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 30, 2008No. 06-60708PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:
Kenesha Barnes (“Barnes”) filed suit against Hoppers, Inc. (“Hoppers”) and Beazer East, Inc. (“Beazer”), alleging that the companies’ operations of a wood treatment plant in Grenada, Mississippi, released environmental contamination that caused her mother’s death from breast cancer. Koppers and Beazer moved unsuccessfully for summary judgment on the ground that Barnes’s claims were barred by Mississippi’s general three-year statute of limitations. Miss.Code Ann. § 15-1-49. After a three-week trial, the jury found Koppers and Beazer liable on Barnes’s negligence…
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