Troy Watson v. Shell Oil Company and Brown & Root, U.S.A., Inc., Robert Adams, Sr. v. Shell Oil Company and Brown & Root, U.S.A., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the litigation, “involving claims by more than 18,000 plaintiffs, starkly presents the nearly insurmountable problems of balancing procedural fairness with judicial efficiency in the management of mass tort litigation”
• affirming district court’s decision to certify a bifurcated class action in which liability and punitive damages would be resolved commonly, and injury, causation, and actual damages would be resolved individually
• the punitive damages jury “is not to extrapolate punitive damages but, rather, is to determine a basis for assessment of punitive damages in the form of a ratio”
• affirming approval of class certification for explosion at refinery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).