Barasich v. Columbia Gulf Transmission Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that oil and gas companies owed no duty, in the absence of a contractual relationship, to protect landowners from “hurricane damage from storm surge allegedly magnified by coastal erosion caused by” dredging
• holding demand for damages justiciable
• “[T]he nature of the relief sought by the plaintiffs in this action supports a determination that this suit does not fall under the second prong of the political question test.”
• “Plaintiffs ask for a finding of liability between parties whose properties are hundreds of miles apart in many cases. If these parties could be held to be neighbors, the restrictive meaning of the statutory language would be eviscerated.”
• “Plaintiffs ask for a finding of liability between parties whose properties are hundreds of miles apart in many cases. If these parties could be held to be neighbors, the restrictive meaning of the statutory language would be eviscerated.”
• “Plaintiffs ask for a finding of liability between parties whose properties are hundreds of miles apart in many cases. If these parties could be held to be neighbors, the restrictive meaning of the statutory language would be eviscerated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).