Despite allegations that the judge’s bias affected the trial’s outcome, the district court rejected DuPont’s motion for mistrial. DuPont’s motion followed the jury’s issuance of a $50 million verdict to the cancer survivor plaintiff, who alleged damages from PFAS contamination.
December 31, 2020 | Abbott v. E.I. du Pont e Nemours & Co., No. 2:17-cv-998 (S.D. Ohio)
Plaintiffs, a married couple, sued Du Pont for PFAS contamination resulting from operation of its West Virginia Washington Works facility. Plaintiffs allege PFAS traveled from the facility via the Ohio River, contaminating their water supply in Ohio and thereby causing Plaintiff Sherman White’s kidney cancer.
September 21, 2020 | White v. E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co., No. 2:20-cv-04955 (S.D. Ohio)
Two defendants, Archroma Management LLC and Daikin Industries, LTD, asked an Ohio district court to reconsider their motions to dismiss challenging personal jurisdiction. The court denied the motion, stating that without an evidentiary hearing, the defendants’ declarations in support of their motion to dismiss did not overcome the prima facie case set out in the plaintiff’s Amended Complaint.
August 3, 2020 | Hardwick v. 3M Co., No. 2:18-cv-1185 (S.D. Ohio)
Plaintiffs, a couple residing in Washington County, Ohio, sued DuPont and Chemours following the husband’s kidney cancer diagnosis. The lawsuit references an earlier class action, settled in 2006, related to groundwater and surface water PFOA contamination resulting from operations at a West Virginia manufacturing facility. As part of the settlement, DuPont allegedly agreed that, if an independent science panel found a “probable link” between a certain diagnosis and PFOA exposure, class members with such diagnoses would have independent causes of action. The science panel found a ”probable link” between PFOA exposure and kidney cancer, and Plaintiffs sued.
June 1, 2020 | Crawford v. E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., 2:20-cv-02824 (S.D. Ohio)
