Legal Opinion

In Re Tutu Wells Contamination Litigation

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided July 22, 1997No. 96-7385, 96-7386, 96-7387, 96-7388 96-7389, 96-7390, 96-7391, 96-7392UnknownCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER

This is an appeal from an order of the district court imposing heavy sanctions upon a law firm, several of its partners, and its client for discovery violations in connection with a large environmental lawsuit. The client, Esso, is charged in the underlying complaint with having poisoned the wells in the Estate Tutu area in the eastern end of St. Thomas by releasing from the Esso Tutu service station petroleum hydrocarbons and chlorinated hydrocarbons into the Tutu aquifer which supplies drinking water to much of the east end of the island. The discovery abuse…

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In Re: Tutu Wells Contamination Litigation. Esso Standard Oil S.A. Ltd. Esso Virgin Islands, Inc. Esso Standard Oil Co. (Puerto Rico), in No. 96-7385, Goldman, Antonetti & Cordova Francis Torres, Esquire Jose Cepeda, Esquire, in No. 96-7386, Eugenio C. Romero, an Attorney at Law, in No. 96-7387, L'henri, Inc., in No. 96-7388, Rhoda Harthman Charlotte A. Labarre Albert E. Harthman Arthur E. Harthman Austin E. Harthman Edgar A. Harthman Sammy E. Harthman P.I.D., Inc. Tutu Services, Limited, in No. 96-7389, Ramsay Motors, Inc., in No. 96-7390, Texaco Inc. Texaco Caribbean, Inc. Vernon Morgan, in No. 96-7391, Four Winds Plaza Partnership, in No. 96-7392Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1997