Judge: MDL Court Applied ‘Incorrect’ Legal Standard; MTBE Negligence Claim Valid

(February 15, 2018, 2:45 PM EST) -- SANTA ANA, Calif. — A federal judge in California on Feb. 8 granted a motion for reconsideration filed by the Orange County Water District (OCWD) in its methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) groundwater contamination lawsuit against various gasoline companies, ruling that the multidistrict litigation court wrongly dismissed the OCWD’s negligence causes of action by relying on “an incorrect legal standard” (Orange County Water District v. Unocal Corporation, et al., No. 03-1742, C.D. Calif.)....

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