United States Fifth Circuit

Although plaintiffs' expert's testimony raised suspicions about the defendant's operations in the area of plaintiffs' property, because the expert proposed 3 theories of how the plaintiffs' property was contaminated, and did not provide any evidence establishing a nexus between the defendant's water injection operations and pollution in the area, suspicions were not enough to present a question of fact to the jury on the issue of causation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/01/2002
• Published 03/01/2002

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, EMILIO M. GARZA and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Wallace Holman,Robert Alan York (argued), Holman & Keeling, James Craig Lewis (argued), Gallagher, Lewis, Downey & Kim, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven Carroll Kiser, Andrew Harper Estes, Lynch, Chappell & Alsup, Midland, TX, Peggy Roberts Perser (argued), Chevron USA, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.