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5th Circuit Panel Affirms Dismissal Of Louisiana Claims In FEMA Trailer...
NEW ORLEANS - A unanimous Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel issued an opinion April 9 affirming dismissal of the Louisiana plaintiffs' claims against the Federal Emergency Management Agency for...
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JPMDL Consolidates Suits Alleging C8 Personal Injuries In Southern District...
SAN DIEGO - The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued a transfer and centralization order on April 8, creating a multidistrict litigation for personal injuries and wrongful death in the...
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5th Circuit Panel Denies Natural Gas Company Rehearing Of Summary Judgment...
NEW ORLEANS - The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel that overturned a summary judgment order for a natural gas well operator in February denied a motion by the company for a rehearing April 5;...
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Pennsylvania Appeals Court: Right-To-Know Exception Applies To Well Fire Records
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A unanimous Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court panel, in an opinion issued April 9, affirmed that records created by the state Department of Environmental Protection during the...
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Federal Magistrate Rules BLM Failure To Conduct Review Of Fracking Violates NEPA
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it failed to conduct an environmental impact review of the effects of fracking before it decided to...
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Louisiana Pipeline Operators Granted Judgment In Suit Alleging Gas Lease...
SHREVEPORT, La. - A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana for disgorgement of profits from transmission of natural gas and for termination of a natural gas...
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West Virginia Plaintiffs Ordered To Specify Claims In Natural Gas Fracking Suit
WHEELING, W.Va. - A motion to dismiss filed by a natural gas storage defendant in a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia lawsuit alleging methane contamination of a domestic...
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Natural Gas Company Reply Supports Dismissing Lawsuit To Declare Lease In...
SCRANTON, Pa. - A natural gas extraction company sued in December in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania by a Rome, Pa., couple for a declaratory judgment that the natural...
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Louisiana Plaintiff To Appeal Defense Summary Judgment In Natural Gas Lease...
SHREVEPORT, La. - A DeSoto Parish, La., real property owner filed notice April 5 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana that he will appeal a March order granting a natural...
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Arkansas Plaintiffs Allege Injection Well Operators Trigger Damaging Temblors
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The owners and operators of wastewater injection wells in Faulkner County, Ark., used for disposal of natural gas well hydraulic fracturing fluids are accused in three lawsuits...
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Louisiana Appeals Panel Upholds Summary Judgment For Oil Extraction Defendant
LAKE CHARLES, La. - Property damage claims against an oil extraction company were properly dismissed on a motion for summary judgment because the plaintiffs failed to meet their burden of proof, a...
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Amicus Counsel Survives Motion To Dismiss In Appeal Of WTC Disaster Payment...
NEW YORK - A motion to disqualify pro bono counsel appointed to represent the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York judge presiding over the World Trade Center Disaster Site...
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2nd Circuit Panel Hears Oral Arguments In Appeal From WTC Disaster Litigation
NEW YORK - A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel heard oral arguments April 11 in the appeal of the July 2012 orders finding that the WTC Captive Insurance Co. breached its duty under the...
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Jury Finds Transit Agency Not Liable For Exposure To Benzene In Diesel Exhaust
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A New Jersey jury on Feb. 7 ruled against a former transit agency employee who said he developed multiple myeloma as a result of exposure to diesel exhaust, benzene and other...
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In Utero Exposure Lawsuit Survives Motion To Dismiss In Delaware Superior Court
WILMINGTON, Del. - A defense motion to dismiss was denied March 27 in a New Castle County, Del., Superior Court personal injury lawsuit filed by the parents of a child with muscular dystrophy that they...
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Tennessee Supreme Court Affirms Employer's Duty To Pay Welder's Asthma Treatment
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Tennessee Supreme Court entered a judgment April 10 adopting findings of fact by a three-justice panel of the court and awarded permanent workers' compensation disability...
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Motion To Dismiss Denied In Suit Seeking PCB Removal From New York City Schools
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A magistrate judge's recommendation to deny a motion by the City of New York to dismiss a declaratory judgment lawsuit seeking removal of polychlorinated biphenyls-containing...
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No Duty To Defend Contamination Suit Is Owed, Tennessee Federal Judge Says
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Insurers have no duty to defend their insured against an underlying environmental contamination suit because the underlying suit does not allege that the contamination was the result...
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Pet Treat Class Actions Transferred From California To Pennsylvania Federal...
SAN FRANCISCO - Class action lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging violations of consumer protection statutes and seeking damages in torts were...
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Iraq War Veterans File Brief In 5th Circuit Appeal By KBR To Dismiss C6...
NEW ORLEANS - Iraq War veterans suing contractors in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas for personal injuries allegedly caused by hexavalent chromium exposure at an oil...
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