ACA Submits Amicus Brief in Exxon MTBE Litigation

摘要

In May, ACA submitted an amicus brief in the case of Exxon Mobil Corp. v. New York City before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The amicus brief is ACA's latest entry as part of the association's Amicus and Legal Tracking System program. In the Exxon Mobil Corp. v. New York City litigation, the City of New York seeks to defend a jury verdict that awarded the city damages in excess of $100 million based upon the possibility that the City might at some indefinite point of time in the next 25 years seek to use water that might contain small amounts of one type of contaminant, the gasoline additive MTBE. Moreover, this verdict is based on contaminant levels that fail within the City's own safe drinking water standards and, thus, will not injure the City's ability to provide safe drinking water to its residents.