It’s been more than three decades since a gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, sparked what some have called the world’s worst industrial accident. Litigation over the 1984 disaster quickly spread to the United States, where lawyers at Kelley Drye & Warren have been fending off claims ever since.
The firm scored its latest win on Tuesday, defeating a proposed class action brought by Indian plaintiffs who claimed they suffered property damage from groundwater pollution near the now-shuttered Bhopal chemical plant. In a summary order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a Manhattan federal judge’s dismissal of negligence, nuisance and other claims against Union Carbide, which was acquired by Dow Chemical Co. in 2001.
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