BATON ROUGE, La. - Remand was denied Feb. 26 in two putative classes removed in April to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana because the amount in controversy exceeds $75,000, according to the presiding judge; the plaintiffs allege exposure to vinyl chloride monomer and chlorine following a March 2012 chemical leak in Ascension Parish, La. (Blake Perritt v. Westlake Vinyls Co., et al., No. 12-253 $(consolidated$), M.D. La.; 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26190)....(read more)![]()
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