Legal Opinion
Rockwell International Corp. v. Wilhite
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Decided August 8, 2003No. 1997-CA-000188-MRPublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HUDDLESTON, Senior Judge.
This case, involving alleged injury to the appellee landowners’ properties in Logan County, Kentucky, as the result of the deposit thereon of polychlorinated biphe-nyls (PCBs) by Rockwell International Corporation, is on remand from the Supreme Court. At trial, there were 50 separate awards to the landowners of compensatory damages totaling $7,566,118.00 for 54 tracts of land. Punitive damages in the amount of $210,000,000.00 were awarded to all landowners jointly. We initially reversed the judgment.
Although the Supreme Court affirmed our initial decision 2…
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