Union Carbide: Bhopal, India, Chemical Exposure Plaintiffs’ Motion ‘Improper’

(July 7, 2016, 11:45 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — Union Carbide Corp., which is being sued by a putative class action that alleges personal injuries from exposure to fugitive chemicals from the closed Bhopal, India, pesticide refinery from which methyl isocyanate was released in 1984, on July 7 filed a brief in the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, arguing that the plaintiffs’ motion to certify state law questions following an opinion that decided an appeal is “improper” (Jargarnath Sahu, et al. v. Union Carbide Corp., et al., No. 14-3087, S.D. N.Y.)....