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Case ID: 4515 | Environmental | 11/07/2005
Two class action lawsuits were filed relating to a CSX Transportation tanker car leak that forced evacuations in Cincinnati.
The lawyers representing homeowners filed the lawsuit against CSX Transportation and the railcar's owner, Westlake Styrene Company. The police evacuated parts of Cincinnati affected by the gas leak. The lawsuit seeks "injunctive relief requiring Defendants to perform such investigations, studies, analyses, medical tests, and remedial measures as are necessary, just and proper under the circumstances" and at least $25,000 in compensatory and punitive damages. The suits accuses the companies of negligence and seek compensatory and punitive damages. Two days after the discovery of the leak, Mayor Luken declared a state of emergency in order to enable the curfew, which was aimed at preventing possible looting in the area. At Lawcash.com, it is our goal to keep you informed about important legal cases, class actions and settlements. Our lawyers offer free legal evaluations in tort cases, class actions, personal injury, and other lawsuits because we are dedicated to helping you resolve your legal complaints. Other Environmental Cases of Interest A lawsuit was filed against the owner of a Prairieville, Louisiana landfill and one of the waste transporters. Court records show the lawsuit seeks a court order to halt the facility’s reportedly foul smell. Filed by a Prairieville resident who lives near the landfill off La. 928, the lawsuit asks a state court judge to grant an order blocking the landfill owner and transporters from “emitting odors which cause the plaintiffs” serious or material discomfort, records show. If suffering the devastation to one's home has not been enough for hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents, then they can now look to their mortgage companies and banks for more evidence of greed. This story will describe what is happening to Louisiana homeowners. Two Virginia farmers who claim they are owed money from the federal government's $10 billion tobacco buyout are seeking to have their lawsuit against the USDA certified as a class action.
The parties have reached a tentative $65 million settlement in an action filed against Union Pacific Corporation on behalf of thousands of evacuees who were forced to leave their homes in Eunice, Louisiana, after a train derailment on May 27, 2000. Persons eligible to take part in the settlement should contact attorneys for the class for more information. New Jersey resident Donald Coles charged that the Chambers Works Plant in Deepwater, N.J., released perfluorooctanoic acid (also known as PFOA or C8) and related chemicals into groundwater tapped by utility companies in New Jersey townships. Coles' filed a lawsuit against the DuPont Co. that targets the company's releases of a chemical used to make nonstick and stain-resistant products. When tires burn, they can pollute as bad as or worse than an oil well fire. In May 2003 the court granted final approval to a $9 million partial settlement with one of the defendants, CMS Generation Company, in a class action on behalf of some 10,000 persons who were residents of Stanislaus County, California, in 1999 and victims of the pollution that resulted when a massive tire dump burned near Westley, California. The deadline for filing claims under the settlement is unavailable.
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