3M has reached a settlement agreement of $99 million related to claims that one of its largest manufacturing plants has been discharging hazardous and solid waste containing PFAS into the Tennessee River in Alabama. This settlement agreement will resolve lawsuits from the Tennessee Riverkeeper as well as a state court class action from local residents…
New Jersey federal district court judge Madeline Cox Arleo denied DuPont and Corteva’s jurisdictional arguments and allowed water utility Suez Water New Jersey’s claims for public nuisance, economic injury, and product liability design-defect and failure-to-warn to survive the motion to dismiss. October 14, 2021 | Suez Water New Jersey, Inc. v. E.I. DuPont De Nemours,…
Judge Nancy E. Brasel of the District Court of Minnesota dismissed an investor suit against 3M, ruling that stockholders had not met the heightened pleading burden established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act to proceed with allegations that 3M hid its liability risk related to PFAS. Judge Brasel determined that the complaint failed to…
Judge Amy Totenberg of the Northern District of Georgia allowed most claims in a proposed class action on behalf of people in Rome, Georgia supplied with drinking water downstream of Dalton, Georgia to proceed against 3M and numerous carpet and chemical companies. Judge Totenberg allowed negligence claims to proceed against manufacturers of carpet products but…
On July 21, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the PFAS Action Act — the most comprehensive piece of federal legislation thus far to deal with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. September 7, 2021 | Law360 | Authors: Jeffrey Dintzer, Greg Berlin, and Ha Chung