COFFEY v. FREEPORT-McMORAN COPPER & GOLD INC.

No. CIV-08-0640-HE.

623 F.Supp.2d 1257 (2009)

Bob COFFEY, et al., Plaintiffs, v. FREEPORT-McMORAN COPPER & GOLD INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Oklahoma.

April 27, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew M. Ihrig, Ihrig Law Firm-Stillwater, Stillwater, OK, Benjamin L. Barnes, Micky Walsh, Beeler Walsh & Walsh PLLC, Oklahoma City, OK, John C. Hull, Keith L. Langston, Kristen J. Pauls, Nelson J. Roach, Bradley Earl Beckworth, Nix Patterson & Roach LLP, Daingerfield, TX, for Plaintiffs.

Emily P. Blackwell, Lewis C. Sutherland, Morgan L. Copeland, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX, Reid E. Robison, Timothy J. Bomhoff, McAfee & Taft, Klahoma City, OK, Kevin E. O'Malley, Michael K. Kennedy, Raymond K. Ramella, Wm Charles Thomson, Gallagher & Kennedy PA, Phoenix, AZ, for Defendants.


ORDER

JOE HEATON, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, Oklahoma citizens, filed this class action in state court asserting nuisance, trespass, strict liability and unjust enrichment claims, based on the defendants' alleged contamination of their property through operation of the Blackwell Zinc Smelter in Blackwell, Oklahoma. The defendants are Blackwell Zinc Company, Inc. ("BZC"), the company that operated the smelter, its parent companies and their successor...

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