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Delaware Business Court Insider
By Tom McParland | November 29, 2017
A Delaware judge on Tuesday dismissed a fraud suit accusing DuPont of using its 2015 spinoff of The Chemours Co. to insulate the company from the growing liability stemming from litigation related to the supposed dumping of toxic chemicals.
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By Josefa Velasquez | November 22, 2017
The state's Court of Appeals ruled that the Battery Park City Authority is a government entity and didn't have legal standing to challenge Jimmy Nolan's Law, a 2009 state law that gave workers who toiled in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers on 9/11, an extra year to file claims against the authority.
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By Kaitlyn R. Maxwell | November 16, 2017
An appeal pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit asks whether CERCLA pre-empts state law claims for medical monitoring, Giovanni v. U.S. Dep't of the Navy, No. 17-2473 (3d Cir.). This is an important issue in the context of perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) because the exact health effects remain in dispute.
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Delaware Business Court Insider
By Tom McParland | November 13, 2017
The Delaware Court of Chancery on Monday dismissed a books-and-records suit against plastics supplier A. Schulman Inc., finding that the plaintiff's Levi & Korsinsky attorneys—and not their client—were the force behind the suit.
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By Diana A. Silva | November 13, 2017
The federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), better known as Superfund, provides private parties with two types of claims to recover costs associated with investigating and remediating contaminated sites—a cost recovery claim under CERCLA Section 107(a), 42 U.S.C. Section 9607(a), and a contribution claim under Section 113(f), 42 U.S.C. Section 9613(f). A party can have either a CERCLA Section 107 cost recovery claim, or a Section 113 contribution claim, but not both, as each section of CERCLA provides mutually exclusive remedies.
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By Amanda Bronstad | November 6, 2017
A Georgia-Pacific LLC unit is blaming “abuses in the tort system” for the skyrocketing number of lawsuits that forced it to file for Chapter 11…
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Delaware Business Court Insider
By Tom McParland | November 3, 2017
The Delaware Court of Chancery on Thursday refused a request by Citadel Plastics Holdings to delay a fraud suit stemming from its $800 million sale to plastics supplier A. Schulman Inc. after federal prosecutors subpoenaed five defendants in a parallel criminal probe, saying it was not yet clear to what extent the two cases would overlap.
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By Katheryn Tucker | November 2, 2017
The attorneys general of Georgia and Florida welcomed the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis report released…
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By Cogan Schneier | October 26, 2017
When lawyers from five mega-firms came together to fight a $90 billion reverse False Claims Act lawsuit, their mission was clear from the start: stop Kasowitz.
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By David G. Mandelbaum | October 26, 2017
On Oct. 16, the Environmental Protection Agency published its proposal to repeal the carbon pollution emission guidelines for existing electric power plants, the centerpiece of the Clean Power Plan, 82 Fed. Reg. 48,035.
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