On August 23, 2002, the firm filed a suit against numerous oil and gas exploration and production companies on behalf of Doré Energy Corporation, which owns approximately 18,000 acres of wetlands in Southwestern Louisiana. Doré Energy Corporation sought a clean-up of its property and a remediation of pollution and other damages caused by decades of oilfield operations that have been conducted on its property. On November 10, 2006, after two weeks of trial, a jury rendered verdict in favor of Doré Energy Corporation and against ExxonMobil Oil Corporation in the amount of $57 million. The jury’s verdict was upheld by the Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal on November 5, 2008, and on March 13, 2009, the Louisiana Supreme Court declined to hear ExxonMobil’s appeal.
Reported Decisions – 899 So.2d 295 (La. App. 1 Cir. 2004); 901 So.2d 1238 (La. App. 3 Cir. 2005); 997 So.2d 826 (La. App. 3rd Cir. 2008).