Western District Judge John Curtin, who ordered the desegregation of Buffalo schools and presided over one of the largest toxic contamination cases in U.S. history, died Friday following a lengthy illness. He was 95.
Curtin oversaw years of litigation involving the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, which was built on top of chemical waste left in the 1940s and 1950s. Hundreds of families had to be evacuated in the 1970s after the waste began seeping into yards and residents reported illnesses and birth defects.
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