United States Eleventh Circuit

In case involving alleged emission of pollutants into the air from defendants' plant that darkened plaintiffs' property, denial of post-trial motion for judgment as a matter of law is affirmed as evidence and relevant law supported the jury's verdict and damage award, the final judgment, and the district court's decision to deny defendants' post-trial motion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/21/2007
• Published 03/21/2007

Judges

• DUBINA, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and CORRIGAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas Henderson Dupree, Jr., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Evan M. Tager, Nickolai Gilford Levin, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, LLP, Washington, DC, Clifford C. Brady, Brady, Radcliff & Brown, LLP, Mobile, AL, Peter Sean Fruin, H. Thomas Wells, Jr., Maynard, Cooper & Gaie, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Justin Brett Busby, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, LLP, Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellants., David B. Byrne, III, Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methuin, Portis & Miles, P.C., Rhon E. Jones, Beasley, Wilson, Allen, Main & Crow, P.C., Montgomery, AL, Edward R. Jackson, Jackson, Fikes, Hood & Brakefield, James C. Brakefield, Tweedy, Jackson, Beech & Fikes, Jasper, AL, Jeffrey Edwin Friedman, P. Thomas Dazzio, Jr., Lee T. Patterson, Friedman, Leak & Bloom, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.