Plaintiffs Showed Companies Owed A Duty Of Care For Tainted Aquifer, Judge Says

Mealey's (February 22, 2018, 1:57 PM EST) -- ALBANY, N.Y. — A federal judge in New York on Feb. 20 partially granted and partially denied a motion to dismiss a groundwater contamination lawsuit, ruling that the plaintiffs showed that the chemical company defendants have a duty to businesses within the area of contamination that have suffered economic losses as a result of the tainted aquifer (R.M. Bacon LLC v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., et al., No. 17-0441, N.D. N.Y.; 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26299)....