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Civil Procedure Keyed to Subrin
Hawthorne Land Co. v. Occidental Chem. Corp
Facts
Plaintiff leased a right of way to Defendants to build a pipeline through Plaintiff’s property. The pipes carried toxic chemicals, and Plaintiff claims that there were at least 29 leaks between April 9, 1985 and November 30, 1987. Plaintiff alleged that Defendants failed to clean up the leaks and sought general and punitive damages. Plaintiff sought to discover information regarding five different pipelines and Defendants moved to limit the discovery to one pipeline. Two of the pipelines were in New York and three others were in Louisiana. Plaintiff’s land was in Louisiana, but only one of the three pipelines ran through their land. Plaintiff asserted that they needed the additional discovery to support a punitive damage award.
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