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WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON NOW? Another case against PG&E, involving chromium 6 in groundwater in Kettleman City, which is off Interstate 5 in California. The case started...
Brockovich and her boss, Ed Masry (played by Albert Finney in the movie), are preparing to go to trial again in November against PG&E on behalf of 140 more Hinkley residents and a group of victims in nearby Kettleman City. So many are seeking to be part of a third lawsuit--800 in all--that Masry is turning people away. Hinkley resident Susan Cordova, who claims the hysterectomy she had at 28 was necessitated by the chromium contamination but has twice been turned down by Masry, says lawyers in Los Angeles (one of whom was portrayed by Peter Coyote...
Jacobsen took over Amerada's presidency in 1929, when De Golyer stepped up to chairman.† He quickly made a series of shrewd deals (e.g., he bought 160 acres in California's Kettleman Hills for $200,000, sat by while others drilled, sold an undivided half interest in his lease for $8,600,000 after another company found oil), built up the cash Amerada needed to expand its oil hunting...
Another category of litigation dated rom the Federal oil land leasing law of 1920, which washed out old claims. As soon as that went into effect Oilman Pat Daugherty, who learned about leasing in Texas, hopped into his big old Cadillac, turned up the road to Kettleman, staked out nearly four square miles identical with Ochsner's old claims. He offered to ile them in Ochsner's name in return for a 10% interest, which was legitimate practice, Daugherty knowing land office ropes which Ochsner did not. Indeed, Ochsner tried to file his own claims-after looking...
...took with another 20% each for her two children. Wife No. 3 got 25% with another 20% for her child. Though several suits are still pending by outsiders, San Francisco's Judge Frank H. Dunne last week decided that it was high time to dig into the Kettleman Kitty, ordered the first distribution, about $130,000, of the impounded funds...