Both sides in the litigation over the 2012 train derailment and chemical spill in Paulsboro are fighting a U.S. district judge’s effort to dismiss most of the remaining cases because their value falls short of the $75,000 threshold to support federal diversity jurisdiction.
U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler of the District of New Jersey dismissed eight plaintiffs after finding they were unlikely to recover the statutory minimum, and he cited similar reasons in pending orders to show cause why about three dozen other cases should not be dismissed.
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