In re Oil Spill by the Amoco Cadiz Off the Coast of France on March 16, 1978
ELR Citation: ELR 20835 No(s). s. 90-2832 et al (7th Cir. Jan 24, 1992)
The court rules that the Amoco Corporation must pay the French government and other parties approximately $204 million in damages for the 1978 oil spill that damaged 180 miles of the Brittany coastline in France. Four cases filed in Illinois and New York were consolidated in the Northern District of...