Post by Logan on Feb 3, 2016 1:11:40 GMT -6
ExxonMobil Corp. has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a $236 million trial judgment against the company in a long-running groundwater contamination case upheld by New Hampshire's top court, claiming that it's unjust and that the state's use of statistics as primary evidence should have been barred.
New Hampshire won the judgment in 2013 against Exxon over its use of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE. Around $195 million of the judgment meant for future cleanups was locked in a trust, but...
Read more: www.law360.com/articles/752931/exxon-pushes-high-court-to-nix-236m-mtbe-judgment
New Hampshire won the judgment in 2013 against Exxon over its use of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE. Around $195 million of the judgment meant for future cleanups was locked in a trust, but...
Read more: www.law360.com/articles/752931/exxon-pushes-high-court-to-nix-236m-mtbe-judgment