Legal Opinion
Wickens v. Shell Oil Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 31, 2010No. 09-2620, 09-2737PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Though the parties’ voluminous filings might suggest otherwise, this case had humble beginnings and there is not much left of it at this point. Pamela and Daniel Wiekens owned a small shoe store in Anderson, Indiana. The store rested on a plot of land that once had been used as a Shell gas station. In 2004, when the Wickenses began preparing to sell the store and retire, they received the unwelcome news that their store rested on a bed of contaminated soil.
Not long after, the Wickenses retained Mark Shere as their attorney and began talks with Shell regarding its liability…
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