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By Emily Cousins | October 19, 2023
"[The defendants] have a duty to provide clean, safe water," plaintiffs counsel Ian Sloss said. "It's our opinion that they've been delinquent in that duty, and so we really hope that these lawsuits motivate them to do the right thing."
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By David G. Mandelbaum | October 19, 2023
Practitioners may want to take note of three subject areas and clusters of issues.
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By Amanda Bronstad | October 16, 2023
Lead class counsel who reached a nearly $1.2 billion settlement with DuPont and a $10.5 billion deal with 3M are asking for nearly $1 billion in legal fees.
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By The Associated Press | October 11, 2023
The petition was filed Monday by the Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of the We Matter Eight Mile Community Association, a community-based organization that advocates for safe and affordable drinking water in Prichard, and more than 20 environmental justice and faith-based groups.
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By ALM Staff | October 10, 2023
This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors.
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By Amanda Bronstad | October 9, 2023
Plaintiffs' lawyers focused on more than glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup, in attempting to convince jurors in two separate trials that the pesticide causes cancer.
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By Colleen Murphy | October 9, 2023
"Defendant 3M conducted studies in the 1950s and early 1960s that showed its perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) accumulates in the human body and is toxic," stated U.S. Magistrate Judge John C. Nivison, in his written opinion for the court. "By the 1970s, additional 3M studies revealed that its PFOS products were 'even more toxic' than previously believed.
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By Tom Stebbins | October 6, 2023
The U.S. Court of Appeals for Second Circuit's 2021 ruling affirming dismissal of New York City's climate change lawsuit against the oil industry creates a clear road map for California's latest suit to be tossed, the director of the Law Reform Alliance of New York writes.
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By Amanda Bronstad | October 5, 2023
Hawaiian Electric Co., which has been named in more than 35 lawsuits, has brought in a team from Munger, Tolles & Olson spearheaded by partner Brad Brian. The state of Hawaii, another defendant, has turned to John Hueston of Hueston Hennigan.
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By Sean M. McGovern Amanda L. Brosy | October 5, 2023
The Shapiro administration recently released its Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy (Interim Final Policy) along with a link to the latest Environmental Justice Mapping and Screening Tool (PennEnviroScreen). The policy took effect on Sept. 16, when official notice of the interim final rulemaking was published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
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