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Texas Appeals Court Dismisses Conspiracy Claims Over 'Fracking' Contamination
FORT WORTH, Texas - A Texas appeals court has dismissed on a writ of mandamus counterclaims by a natural gas company that property owners and their environmental consultant conspired to defame the...
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Gas Extraction Companies File Brief In Support Of Lease Denial Appeal
NEW YORK - Natural gas extraction companies denied lease extensions during the New York moratorium on horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing filed a brief April 5 in the Second Circuit U.S. Court...
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Gas Lease Expiration Appealed To New York Federal Court From Bankruptcy Court
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Property owners opposing an attempt by natural gas leaseholders to extend a lease beyond the primary period filed an appellant brief April 15 in the U.S. District Court for the...
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Radiation Death Claims Survive Defense Motion To Dismiss In Louisiana Federal...
NEW ORLEANS - Oil extraction companies joined as defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana by the survivors of an oil pipe...
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Defendants Seek Dismissal Of NORM Exposure Lawsuit In Louisiana Federal Court
NEW ORLEANS - Three defendants in a naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) personal injury lawsuit filed a joint motion to dismiss on March 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...
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Kentucky Appeals Panel Affirms Defense Verdict In Suit Seeking 2,4-D Drift...
FRANKFORT, Ky. - A unanimous Kentucky Court of Appeals panel issued an opinion May 3 affirming a defense verdict for a Hardin County, Ky., tree farmer accused of damaging his neighbor's crops by...
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Defense Judgment Overturned By Wisconsin Appeals Panel In Herbicide Drift Suit
WAUSAU, Wis. - A unanimous District III Wisconsin Court of Appeals panel on April 23 overturned summary judgment for a farmer accused of liability for herbicide drift that damaged trees on his...
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Pesticide Drift Case Dismissed By Arkansas Appellate Panel On Procedural Grounds
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A unanimous Division IV Arkansas Court of Appeals panel on April 17 dismissed on procedural grounds an appeal by property owners seeking to recover damages for pesticide drift...
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Common Benefit Fee Allocation Approved In FEMA MDL Consolidated In Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS - The allocation of the approved $6.27 million common benefit fee in the consolidated Federal Emergency Management Agency multidistrict litigation for exposure to formaldehyde in portable...
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Indiana Appeals Panel Affirms In Part Judgment In Dursban Injury Lawsuit
INDIANAPOLIS - In a unanimous opinion issued April 30, an Indiana Court of Appeals panel affirmed in part a trial court order granting The Dow Chemical Co. summary judgment on failure-to-warn claims in...
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Indiana Appeals Panel Upholds Right To Farm Act Judgment For Dairy Factory Farm
INDIANAPOLIS - A unanimous Indiana Court of Appeals panel on April 30 affirmed summary judgment for the operator of a confined animal feeding operation on the grounds that the factory farm cannot as a...
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United States Seeks To Upset Order Denying Dismissal In Camp Lejeune Water Suits
ATLANTA - The United States filed a reply brief on April 11 in 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals pressing its argument that the North Carolina statute of repose should be applied for a judgment...
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Plaintiffs Seek Conference To Schedule Trial In Suit Alleging Burn Injury...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - A northern Indiana couple that alleges that the design of a plasma torch and a work shirt caused burn injuries on April 16 moved in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District...
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Remand Denied In New Jersey Derailment Class Action; CAFA Amount In...
CAMDEN, N.J. - Named plaintiffs in a putative class action consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey Paulsboro Derailment Litigation were denied remand April 23 because the...
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Flavor Defendant Dismissed From Consumer Lawsuit Alleging Diacetyl Lung Injury
SIOUX CITY, Iowa - A joint stipulation of dismissal was granted April 9 in a microwave popcorn consumer diacetyl exposure lawsuit pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa;...
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Power Plant Operators File Notice To Remove Lawsuit Under Price-Anderson Act
AUGUSTA, Ga. - The owners of a nuclear power plant in Waynesboro, Ga., filed notice of removal on April 17 in a personal injury lawsuit filed by a laborer who alleges radiation exposure and back...
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Researchers Report Evidence PFOA Exposure Limits Too High
ODENSE, Denmark - Researchers in the Department of Environmental Medicine at the University of Southern Denmark recommend in an analysis of the effects of exposure to perfluorinated alkylates published...
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Bank Of America To Pay $1.7B To Settle Mortgage- Backed Securities Claims
NEW YORK - Bank of America Corp. (BoA) will pay nearly $1.7 billion to MBIA Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries to settle claims in New York State court that BoA misrepresented the investment quality...
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SEC Reaches Settlement With City Over Federal Securities Law Violations
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Securities and Exchange Commission and the City of Harrisburg, Pa., have agreed to a cease-and-desist order preventing the city from continuing its violation of federal...
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Improper Substitute Plaintiffs May Lead To Dismissal Of 2 Aredia/Zometa Cases
NASHVILLE - A Tennessee federal magistrate judge in the Aredia/Zometa multidistrict litigation on May 3 recommended that a plaintiff and his attorney be sanctioned with dismissal of their case with...
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