Legal Opinion
United States v. Hooker Chemicals & Plastics Corp.
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided October 2, 1990No. CIV-79-990CPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CURTIN, District Judge.
BACKGROUND
Among the forms of relief it requests in its amended complaint, plaintiff State of New York (“State”) seeks $250 million in punitive damages on its common-law public-nuisance claims. The State contends that such an award is warranted in light of what it describes as the role of defendant Occidental Chemical Corporation (“OCC”) in the creation of “the public health and environmental disaster at Love Canal.” Item 142 at ¶ 1. OCC has moved under Rules 12(b)(6) and 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to dismiss the State’s punitive-damages claim for failure…
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