(December 2, 2019, 10:08 AM EST) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A New York appeals court on Nov. 27 reversed a lower court’s ruling and held that a trial court “improvidently granted” a motion to dismiss a groundwater contamination lawsuit because the plaintiffs’ delay in filing their case was not fatal to the petition because there was no prejudice involved (In the Matter of Norma Brooks, et al v. County of Suffolk, Nos. 2017-08563 and 2018-04121, N.Y. Sup., App. Div., 2nd Dept., 2019 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8594)....