Legal Opinion
Gintis v. Bouchard Transportation Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 23, 2010No. 09-1717PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOUTER, Associate Justice.
A fuel barge owned and operated by defendants discharged a substantial amount of oil into the waters of Buzzards Bay in southeastern Massachusetts. Plaintiffs are owners of residential waterfront property on the bay who brought suit as individuals and as members of a proposed class. The district court denied class certification, but because the court did not subject the parties’ contentions to the plenary analysis that precedent requires, we vacate the judgment and remand.
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Defendants (collectively, Bouchard) owned and operated both the tugboat Evening Tide and the…
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