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Hezekiah Sistrunk Appointed To DePuy Hip Implant Discovery Committee
Posted on 2 Feb 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

ATLANTA - Attorney Hezekiah Sistrunk Jr. of The Cochran Firm - Atlanta has been selected for a leadership position in the DePuy ASR Hip Implant mass tort multidistrict litigation. Federal Judge David A. Katz appointed Sistrunk to the Discovery Committee... Read More

Erin Brockovich Back In Hinkley Testing Water
Posted on 10 Mar 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

HINKLEY, Calif. - (AP) At the end of "Erin Brockovich , " a housewife sick from toxic chromium weeps with joy as she's handed her portion of a historic $333 million settlement between residents of this small desert town and the utility that... Read More

Court Revives N. California Town’s Pollution Lawsuit
Posted on 28 Jan 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

SAN FRANCISCO - (AP) An appeals court revived a class-action lawsuit Thursday for 160 residents of a Northern California town who claim an industrial plant's pollution severely sickened them. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a trial judge... Read More

TVA Says Ash Spill Caused No Harm To People Suing
Posted on 17 Sep 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - (AP) Tennessee Valley Authority attorneys are asking a federal judge to dismiss 58 lawsuits over the toxic muck that spilled from a holding pond at one of the public utility's plants in 2008. The filing Friday asks the court to... Read More

Jersey City Residents Sue Over Alleged Chromium Dumping
Posted on 26 May 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Jersey City residents have filed a lawsuit against Honeywell International of New Jersey and PPG Industries of Pennsylvania for allegedly dumping and failing to clean up cancer-causing hexavalent chromium waste in their neighborhoods... Read More