PARKO v. SHELL OIL CO.

Nos. 13-8023, 13-8024.

739 F.3d 1083 (2014)

Jeana PARKO, et al., Plaintiffs, v. SHELL OIL CO., et al., Petitions of Conocophillips Co., et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 17, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Derek Yeats Brandt , Attorney, Simmons Browder Gianaris Angelides & Barnerd, Alton, IL, for Plaintiffs.

Beth A. Bauer , Attorney, Hepler Broom LLC, Edwardsville, IL, Christopher Clarke Posteraro , Attorney, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC, Richard B. Korn , Attorney, Fox Galvin, St. Louis, MO, for Defendants.

Before WOOD, Chief Judge, and POSNER and SYKES, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The district court certified a class of property owners in Roxana (a tiny village in southwestern Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis) in a suit against Shell Oil Company, which (together with Shell subsidiaries also joined as defendants) until 2000 owned and operated an oil refinery (the Wood River Refinery, built in 1918) that is adjacent to the village. The suit is also against ConocoPhillips (and some of its subsidiaries...

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