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Jury Returns Verdict For Plaintiffs In 1st Phase Of Contamination Trial
Posted on 2 Apr 2011 by Bill G Lowe

FRESNO, Calif. - (Mealey's) A federal jury in California on April 1 returned a verdict for the plaintiffs in the first phase of a mass tort action against the owners of an industrial site in Merced County, Calif., for allowing hexavalent chromium... Read More

Tags: Raul Valencia Abarca v. Merck , arsenic , hexavalent chromium , pollution , California , toxic torts , contaminated water , Merck , Litigation , Merced , aquifer , lawsuit , Meadowbrook Water , water , mass tort , BAC-Pritchard , Merced County

The Law Firm Of Baron And Budd Confirms $105 Million Settlement For Water Providers Affected By Atrazine
Posted on 12 Dec 2012 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

DALLAS - On Oct. 23, 2012, the law firm of Baron and Budd announced a $105 million settlement on behalf of more than 1,000 community water systems that have detected the chemical atrazine in their water supplies. On Nov. 27, the deadline to appeal the... Read More

Tags: herbicide , Baron and Budd , Scott Summy , water contamination , Atrazine , Litigation , Syngenta Crop Protection LLC , Syngenta AG , water

Williams Mullen: Clean Water Rule Opens Litigation Floodgates
Posted on 9 Jul 2015 by Williams Mullen

By A. Keith "Kip" McAlister, Jr. | With much fanfare, EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) recently issued a final rule clarifying which bodies of water are “waters of the United States” protected under the... Read More

Tags: Rapanos , Army Corps of Engineers , pollution , CWA , Williams Mullen , environment , Litigation , water , U.S. Supreme Court , Clean Water Act , EPA

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

Tags: Bowcock , Pacific Gas & Electric , Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board , chromium , Integrated Resource Management , Litigation , lawsuit , Erin Brockovich , Settlement , Roberta Walker , water , PG&E , Hinkley

High Court Won't Wade Into Florida Water Fight
Posted on 30 Nov 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) The Supreme Court won't force Florida water managers to get permits to pump contaminated water from farmland into Lake Okeechobee. The high court refused to hear an appeal from the Friends of the Everglades, the Florida Wildlife... Read More

Tags: Supreme Court , Lake Okeechobee , Florida , Florida Wildlife Federation , Litigation , lawsuit , water , Friends of the Everglades

Judge OKs $26.5 Million Water Contamination Settlement
Posted on 4 Apr 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

ST. LOUIS, Mich. - (AP) A federal judge has approved a $26.5 million settlement for a central Michigan community whose water supply was contaminated by a chemical company in the 1950s and 1960s. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas L. Ludington in Bay City... Read More

Tags: St. Louis , Water Supply , DDT , Velsicol , water contamination , Litigation , Michigan , pesticide , Settlement , water

High Court Sides With Wyoming In Water Dispute With Montana
Posted on 2 May 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

BILLINGS, Mont. - (AP) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Wyoming farmers are not taking too much water from a river system they share with neighboring Montana. The high court turned away Montana's complaint that Wyoming was violating a 1950... Read More

Tags: Supreme Court , Montana , Powder River , Wyoming , Tongue River , water rights , Litigation , water

JM Eagle Sued For Allegedly Inferior PVC Pipe Used In Water Systems
Posted on 17 Sep 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

LOS ANGELES - A class action lawsuit was filed Sept. 7 on behalf of private water utilities and commercial property owners potentially seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from JM Eagle for allegedly knowingly supplying substandard polyvinyl chloride... Read More

Tags: Birka-White Law Offices , pipe , potable water systems , John D. Green , fire hydrants , Construction Defects , J-M Manufacturing Company , polyvinyl chloride , David M. Birka-White , new lawsuit filings , JM , class action , Mindy W. Wong , PVC , Farella , Stephen Oroza , building fire suppression systems , Litigation , Cambridge Lane v. J-M Manufacturing Company , William R. Friedrich , water utilities , water , Braun & Martel