STATE EX REL. SLATERY v. CHEVRON CORP.

No. M2018-00789-COA-R3-CV.

578 S.W.3d 924 (2018)

STATE EX REL. Herbert H. SLATERY III et al. v. CHEVRON CORPORATION et al.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Middle Section, AT NASHVILLE.

FILED December 18, 2018.

Application for Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court May 20, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert H. Slatery, III , Attorney General and Reporter, Andrée Blumstein , Solicitor General, Janet M. Kleinfelter , Deputy Attorney General, Olha Rybakoff , Senior Counsel, and Ann Mikkelsen , Assistant Attorney General, for the appellant, State of Tennessee.

William David Bridgers , John Edward Haubenreich , and Andrew Warth , Nashville, Tennessee, and David A. Higbee , Matthew W. Modell , and Ryan A. Shores , Washington D.C., for the appellees, Chevron Corporation, Chevron U.S.A., Inc., Star Enterprise, Texaco, Inc., and Unocal Corporation.


OPINION

Andy D. Bennett, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Richard H. Dinkins and W. Neal McBrayer, JJ., joined.

The Tennessee Attorney General issued several civil investigative demands ("CIDs") to several oil companies as part of an investigation into false claims and violations of the Tennessee Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Act, Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 68-215-101-204. Compliance was incomplete, but the Attorney General filed suit...

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