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142191P.pdf   09/15/2015  Bruce Smith  v.  ConocoPhillips Pipe Line Co.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-2191
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Shepherd, Circuit Judge, and Harpool, 
   District Judge] 
   Civil case - Nuisance. In class action alleging defendant had created a 
   nuisance by contaminating drinking well water within a 1.1 mile radius of 
   its contaminated site, the district court erred in certifying the class of 
   homeowner plaintiffs; in light of contemporary consensus by persuasive 
   authority on the meaning of common law nuisance in the context of 
   environmental contamination, the court concludes that the putative class 
   fear of contamination spreading from the pipeline leak site to harm their 
   property is not a sufficient injury to support a claim for common law 
   nuisance in the absence of proof.