ELR Citation: ELR 21060
No(s). 97-20042 (5th Cir. Mar 26, 1997)

The court rejects a district court trial plan that provided for a unitary trial on general liability and causation in a mass tort case against an oil company that owned a crude oil storage waste pit on which plaintiff-appellees' homes were built. The trial plan provided for a bellwether group of 30 ...