Glyphosate Cancer Victim: Monsanto's Claim Of Verdict Impropriety Is 'Baseless'
SAN FRANCISCO - A cancer victim who won $80,267,644.10 when a federal jury found that Roundup was a "substantial factor" in causing his cancer on July 8 filed a brief in California federal court contending that while he does not object to Monsanto Co.'s motion to supplement the record, he "must respond to the two baseless assertions by Monsanto that suggest impropriety may have occurred" (In re: Roundup Products Liability Litigation [Hardeman v Monsanto], MDL No. 2741, No. 16-525, N.D. Calif.). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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Judge Cuts Punitive Damages In Glyphosate Cancer Case, Denies Monsanto JNOV
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in California on July 15 issued an order that reduced the punitive damages award to a glyphosate cancer victim from $75 million to $20 million, saying that the size of the initial award was "constitutionally impermissible." The damages order followed a separate order issued July 12 that denied Monsanto Co.'s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) (In re: Roundup Products Liability Litigation [Hardeman v Monsanto], MDL No. 2741, No. 16-525, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 116638). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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Group Sues Tea Company For Glyphosate, Other Chemicals In Its Product
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) on July 3 sued a tea company in the District of Columbia Superior Court, contending that it engages in false and misleading advertising when it promotes its products as "pure" and containing "100% natural ingredients" when they actually contain glyphosate and other chemicals (Organic Consumers Association v. Twinings North America Inc., et al., No. N/A, D.C. Super.). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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High Court To Hear Oral Arguments In Contamination Suit Nov. 9
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on July 8 scheduled oral arguments for Nov. 9 in an appeal brought by the County of Maui, Hawaii, over a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that awarded summary judgment to five environmental groups that accused the county of violating the Clean Water Act (CWA) when discharging pollutants that reached the Pacific Ocean without a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit (Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife, No. 18-260, U.S. Sup.). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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Former Safety Director Improperly Joined To Contamination Suit, Judge Says
OXFORD, Miss. - The former safety director to the predecessor of a defendant company accused of failing to properly remediate trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination that has migrated off its property is not properly named as a defendant in a lawsuit because he cannot face liability solely on his title, a federal judge in Mississippi ruled June 28 in denying the plaintiffs' motion to remand and granting the defendant's motion to dismiss (L.L.D. LLC, et al. v. Enpro Industries Inc., et al., No. 19-cv-00046-GHD-JMV, N.D. Miss., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108982). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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Judge Remands Benefits Appeal To Consider Possible Exposure To Agent Orange
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A federal judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims on June 26 remanded a widow's case for disability benefits to the Board of Veterans Appeals for consideration of whether her husband was exposed to Agent Orange during his time in the U.S. Navy (Georgia Womack v. Robert L. Wilkie, No. 18-3099, Vet. Clms., 2019 U.S. App. Vet. Claims LEXIS 1076). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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Maryland High Court Affirms Admission Of Expert Testimony In Lead Paint Case
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Maryland Court of Appeals on June 24 affirmed a lower court ruling and said a trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the testimony of plaintiff's experts in a lead-based paint poisoning lawsuit despite some dispute over the timing of the admission based on the scheduling order (Elliot Dackman, et al. v. Daquantay Robinson, No. 80, Sept. Term 2018, 2019 Md. LEXIS 310). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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Couple Settles With Last Defendant In Benzene Suit On Eve Of Trial
OAKLAND, Calif. - A law firm representing a couple claiming that the man's exposure to benzene-containing products while working as an automobile mechanic caused him to develop myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) announced July 1 that they had reached a settlement in California state court with the last defendant in the action on the eve of trial, bringing the total settlement amount to $6.3 million (Jimmy H. Thomas, et al. v. AZKO Nobel Coatings Inc., et al., No. RG-17-882514, Calif. Super., Alameda Co.). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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Judge: County Agency May Not Assert New Affirmative Defenses In Groundwater Case
DETROIT - A federal judge in Michigan on June 27 partly granted and partly denied a motion by a municipal agency to amend its answer and assert counterclaims in a groundwater contamination lawsuit, ruling that the agency could not assert new affirmative defenses or demand a jury trial at this stage in the litigation (Gould Electronics Inc. v. Livingston County Road Commission, No. 17-11130, E.D. Mich., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 107370). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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Company: Causation Lacking, Groundwater Contamination Case Should Be Dismissed
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A company on June 26 moved in a Florida federal court seeking dismissal of a protracted, consolidated groundwater contamination case on grounds that the plaintiffs' expert has failed to establish causation and he has even "disavowed" an opinion on actual damages (Richard Cotromano, et al. v. United Technologies Corporation, et al., No. 13-80928, and Joseph Adinolfe, et al. v. United Technologies Corporation, et al., No 10-80840, S.D. Fla.). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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Judge: Groundwater Defendant Improperly Joined, Case Belongs In Federal Court
OXFORD, Miss. - A federal judge in Mississippi on June 24 dismissed a defendant in a groundwater contamination lawsuit brought by a municipality on grounds that he was improperly joined and denied the plaintiff's motion to remand the case to state court (Yalobusha County, Mississippi v. Enpro Industries Inc., et al., No. 19-43, N.D. Miss., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106187). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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Some Parties In Groundwater Case Stipulate To Dismissal; Details Withheld
GREENVILLE, Miss. - Some of the plaintiffs in a groundwater contamination lawsuit in a Mississippi federal court on June 18 stipulated to the dismissal of their claims with prejudice in Mississippi federal court. Details of the settlement agreement that led to the dismissal were not provided (Joe E. Sledge, et al. v. Meritor Inc., et al., No. 16-cv-053, N.D. Miss.). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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City: Plaintiffs 'Inaccurately Assert' Claims In Arsenic Groundwater Litigation
FORT MYERS, Fla. - The city of Fort Myers, Fla., on June 19 filed a brief in a Florida federal court contending that the plaintiffs in a groundwater contamination lawsuit against the city "inaccurately assert" that the city was aware of low levels of arsenic contained in "lime residual" at a dump site and that their motion for leave to file a third amended complaint should be denied (Deretha Miller, et al. v. Fort Myers, et al., No. 18-195, M.D. Fla.). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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Judge Grants Sale Of Drinking Water Providers In Prolonged Contamination Lawsuit
SAN JOSE, Calif. - A federal judge in California on June 25 ordered the sale of five drinking water systems to a community services district after those water providers were placed in to receivership as a result of a long-standing federal lawsuit over the original provider's failure to comply with a drinking water law that regulates chemical contamination (United States of America v. Alisal Water Corp., et al., No. 97-20099, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106307). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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California Water Agency: 3M, Others Tainted Water With Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
CHARLESTON, S.C. - The California-American Water Co. on June 21 sued 3M Co. and others in South Carolina federal court contending that it is liable for groundwater contamination by a variety of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) (California-American Water Company v. The 3M Company, et al., No. 19-1784, D. S.C.). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Emerging Toxic Torts Legal News)
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