From: Arkansas Online
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Property owners suing Exxon Mobil failed to prove that
they and other landowners along the Pegasus pipeline have enough in
common to merit class-action status, the oil company said in its
argument against an appeal of a federal judge's decision dismissing the
case.
"The district court did not abuse its discretion in decertifying the
class," Exxon Mobil and subsidiaries Exxon Mobil Pipeline Co. and Mobil
Pipe Line Co. said in an 83-page document filed in the 8th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in St. Louis.
"Appellants failed to meet their burden to demonstrate the
commonality, typicality and adequacy requirements" under federal civil
procedural rules "because the class claims could not be resolved without
extensive individual inquiries into the state of the pipeline on each
individual landowner's property," Exxon Mobil wrote in the document
filed Thursday. MORE
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