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Environmental Watchdog Seeks Case Management Statement From Natural Gas Company
SCRANTON, Pa. - An environmental watchdog requested in a letter filed March 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania the entry of an order instructing the parties to file a...
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Natural Gas Defendants Ask Pennsylvania Federal Court To Dismiss Lease...
SCRANTON, Pa. - Two of the defendants named in a declaration of rights lawsuit filed in December in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania by a Rome, Pa., couple who allege the...
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Arkansas Plaintiffs Allege Frack Fluid Disposal Caused Property-Damaging...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Two Faulkner County, Ark., couples sued natural gas extraction companies on March 11 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas for damage to the residences the...
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New Jersey Class Plaintiffs Dispute Counsel Selection In Paulsboro Derailment...
CAMDEN, N.J. - The so-called Paulsboro, N.J., federal court class plaintiffs oppose the attempt by so-called remand plaintiffs to have their attorneys appointed class counsel, in a response filed March...
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Plaintiffs Alleging Injuries From Camp Lejeune Water Respond To Government...
ATLANTA - In briefs filed Feb. 11 and Feb. 28, the plaintiffs in the Marine Corps Camp Lejeune, N.C., water contamination litigation consolidated in the Northern District of Georgia oppose the appeal...
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Michigan Imprelis Damage Suit For Landscape Tree Deaths Removed to Federal Court
DETROIT - DuPont filed notice of removal March 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in an Imprelis herbicide tree damage lawsuit on the grounds of diversity of citizenship...
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Louisiana Plaintiffs Allege Damages From Mill Waste In Putative Class Action
MONROE, La. - A first amended complaint filed Feb. 28 in a putative class action seeking damages for personal injuries and property damage allegedly cause by fugitive paper mill waste was transferred...
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Researchers Link Hypertension To Prenatal DDT Exposure
RESEARCH TRIANLGE PARK, N.C. - The National Institute of Environmental Health Science published a study online March 12 linking prenatal DDT exposure to diagnosed hypertension in adult women....(read...
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Researchers Confirm Vegetables Accumulate Arsenic From Soil
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - The National Institute of Environmental Health Science announced March 6 that researchers in the Superfund Research Program have advised gardeners to test whether their...
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Researchers Report BPA Link To Asthma In Exposed Children
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Researchers report in the March edition of The Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology that postnatal urinary bisphenol A (BPA) concentrations are positively...
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9th Circuit Majority Affirms Insurer Has No Standing To Assert Subrogation...
SAN FRANCISCO - The majority of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 15 affirmed that an insurer has no standing to assert claims for subrogation and reimbursement for costs it paid in...
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High Court Declines To Review Standing Ruling In Mortgage-Backed Securities Suit
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on March 18 declined review of a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that a pension fund has standing to assert claims for relief on behalf of...
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Judge: Consumers' State Law Claims Against Credit Union Are Time-Barred
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A credit union is entitled to summary judgment as to consumers' Missouri Merchandising Practices Act claims in conjunction with the sale and subsequent repossession of automobiles...
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Class Suit Over Recording Of Phone Calls Transferred To Other Calif. Federal...
FRESNO, Calif. - A U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California magistrate judge on March 14 agreed to transfer a class complaint accusing a hotel chain of improperly recording calls with...
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Tennessee Federal Judge Transfers Junk Fax Suit To Ohio Federal Court
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A Tennessee federal judge on March 14 agreed to transfer a class complaint over unsolicited faxed advertisements to an Ohio federal court, where a similar case was filed several...
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Federal Judge Refuses To Compel Arbitration Of Oil Drilling Services Dispute
HOUSTON - A Texas federal judge on March 18 denied a motion to compel arbitration filed by an oil company, finding that various oil and drilling entities did not agree to arbitrate disputes and that...
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Architect Barred From Testifying Decay Caused Kansas Bowling Alley Collapse
WICHITA, Kan. - An architect who has no engineering experience cannot testify on behalf of plaintiffs in an insurance coverage dispute that decay contributed to a bowling alley collapse, a federal...
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No Coverage Owed For Water Damage Claims, Utah Appeals Panel Says
SALT LAKE CITY - A liability insurance carrier has no duty to defend its insured against underlying property damage claims because the policy did not provide coverage for property damage claims, the...
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Bankruptcy Judge Approves Plan Allowing For MF Global To Proceed With...
NEW YORK - The bankruptcy judge presiding over the Chapter 11 proceeding of MF Global Holdings Ltd. on March 13 approved a plan put forth by the plan proponents that would make it possible for the...
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MF Global Plan Proponents Seek Approval To Proceed With Disclosure, Liquidation
NEW YORK - The plan proponents in the Chapter 11 proceeding of MF Global Holdings (MFGH) on March 8 moved in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York for approval of the...
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