Landowners Fail To Allege Remediation Company Breached Duty Of Care, Judge Says

Mealey's (April 4, 2019, 4:38 PM EDT) -- GREENSBORO, N.C. — A federal judge in North Carolina on April 2 dismissed a remediation company from a lawsuit brought by residents who live near a booster station owned and operated by Colonial Pipeline Co., finding that the plaintiffs failed to allege that the remediation company owed them a duty when cleaning up a hydraulic oil spill in 2013 and that it breached that duty when performing its work and taking soil samples (Jackie Braswell, et al. v. Colonial Pipeline Co., et al., No. 18cv580, M.D. N.C., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56349)....