Justices Reject Exxon's Appeal In Cleanup Case
Environmental
The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a $112 million punitive damage award against Exxon Mobil over radioactive contamination at an industrial site in Louisiana. The world's largest oil company had unsuccessfully argued that the award exceeded constitutional limits on punitive damages.
The high court's refusal to overturn the massive verdict means that landowner Joseph Grefer and his siblings may keep the $146 million Exxon paid in 2006 to satisfy the judgment plus interest.
The Grefers claimed Exxon left them with a huge cleanup bill after a company Exxon hired polluted a 33-acre site near New Orleans with radioactive residue from an oil pipe-cleaning facility. The award covered cleanup costs and damages for the potential health problems suffered by neighbors and workers at the site.
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Grounds for Divorce in Ohio - Sylkatis Law, LLC
A divorce in Ohio is filed when there is typically “fault” by one of the parties and party not at “fault” seeks to end the marriage. A court in Ohio may grant a divorce for the following reasons:
• Willful absence of the adverse party for one year
• Adultery
• Extreme cruelty
• Fraudulent contract
• Any gross neglect of duty
• Habitual drunkenness
• Imprisonment in a correctional institution at the time of filing the complaint
• Procurement of a divorce outside this state by the other party
Additionally, there are two “no-fault” basis for which a court may grant a divorce:
• When the parties have, without interruption for one year, lived separate and apart without cohabitation
• Incompatibility, unless denied by either party
However, whether or not the the court grants the divorce for “fault” or not, in Ohio the party not at “fault” will not get a bigger slice of the marital property.