Jurors filed into a Houston courtroom on Nov. 13 poised to potentially fine a trio of companies more than $1 billion for allowing toxic waste to foul the San Jacinto river for half a century. Instead, two defendants—McGinnis Industrial Maintenance Corp. and Waste Management of Texas—cut a last-minute deal to flee the case, leaving International Paper Inc. to face the jury alone.
“You don’t see MIMC and you don’t see Waste Management here because they’ve settled,” Winstol “Winn” Carter of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius said in his closing argument later that morning. “We are still here because we did nothing wrong.”
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.
For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]
