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Local Fracking Ban Struck Down

By Sean Wajert on July 3, 2015
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

We typically focus on state court class actions when they reach the appellate level, but wanted to note an interesting decision at the trial court lev…
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EPA Draft Report on Fracking

By Sean Wajert on June 8, 2015
Posted in Articles, Toxic Tort

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a draft report on hydraulic fracturing, concluding that there is no evidence that fracking ha…
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Upcoming Seminar of Interest

By Sean Wajert on March 9, 2015
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

Our readers may be interested in the upcoming seminar: Chemical Products Liability and Environmental Litigation. It’s scheduled for April 22-23 in New…
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Federal Court Denies Certification in Groundwater Class Case

By Sean Wajert on March 6, 2015
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Medical Monitoring, Toxic Tort

A federal judge in Oklahoma earlier this week denied class certification to homeowners living near a research facility, holding that individual issues…
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MDL Court Rejects Plaintiffs’ New Causation Experts

By Sean Wajert on February 9, 2015
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Consumer Products, Toxic Tort

The MDL judge in the Denture Cream Products coordinated litigation has rejected all of plaintiffs’ general causation experts. See In re Denture Cream …
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State Supreme Court Reinstates Defense Jury Verdict in Silica Litigation

By Sean Wajert on February 3, 2015
Posted in Articles, Toxic Tort

The Mississippi Supreme Court confirmed last week that the jury could have properly determined that plaintiff’s evidence failed to prove in a silica c…
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Expert Panel Confirms Safety of BPA Use

By Sean Wajert on January 22, 2015
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Consumer Products, Toxic Tort

We have posted before about the BPA “controversy” egged on by lawyers seeking their next mass tort. Now comes yet another report on BPA, fro…
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Each and Every Exposure Opinion Rejected

By Sean Wajert on January 12, 2015
Posted in Articles, Toxic Tort

A federal court recently excluded the specific causation opinions of a plaintiff’s expert who asserted the defendant was liable in an asbestos case un…
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Appeals Court Upholds Successor Liability Reform

By Sean Wajert on December 30, 2014
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products, Toxic Tort

A Pennsylvania appeals court issued has upheld an important statutory reform, a law limiting the liability of Pennsylvania-based businesses that have …
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Long-standing Case Arising from Hurricane Rejected

By Sean Wajert on July 28, 2014
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

Readers know we don’t have the resources here to update every case we post on, but here is an update on a case we posted about nearly six years ago. S…
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