Earthquake Causation from Wastewater Injection Wells Is a Private Dispute In Ladra v. New Dominion LLC, 2015 OK 53, 2015 WL 3982748, New Dominion, LLC and another defendant were operators of wastewater injection wells in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. In November 2011, a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the plaintiffs home, which the plaintiff claimed caused her personal injuries. Id f 3. The plaintiff sued the defendants in state court, alleging that the defendants' injection wells caused the earthquake and were the proximate cause of her injuries. Id. f 4. The defendants objected to the state trial court's jurisdiction and moved to dismiss. The trial court found that the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) had exclusive jurisdiction over the matter, and dismissed plaintiffs suit. Id.
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