Plaintiffs v DuPont Co.
New Jersey Class Action C8 Suit Can Proceed
A US District Court judge ruled that a class-action lawsuit can proceed against DuPont Co. in southern New Jersey, where some residents are arguing that DuPont has contaminated their drinking water with ammonium perfluorooctanoate, or PFOA (also known as C8), a chemical used to make cookware, according to recent media reports.
Attorney Stuart Lieberman, represents a potential class of 15,000 residents of Penns Grove, Salem County, who live near DuPonts Chambers Works plant.
According to the Sustained Outrage blog, this recent action is quite different from that in a similar West Virginia case, where US District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin has declined to allow residents to proceed as a class and in a bombshell ruling last week dismissed all claims against DuPont except for medical monitoring.
Goodwin was ruling in a case brought by residents of the city of Parkersburg, whose water supply had been polluted with C8, reportedly from DuPonts nearby Washington Works plant.
For more information please contact:
Lieberman & Blecher
10 Jefferson Plaza
Suite 100
Princeton, NJ 08540
Tel: (732) 355-1311
Fax: (732) 355-1310
