2nd Circuit Dismisses Appeal Of Toxic Tort Plaintiffs’ Tronox ‘Derivative’ Claims

(April 21, 2017, 4:01 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — Because a federal court’s ruling enforcing a permanent anti‐suit injunction issued as part of a $5.5 billion settlement in the Chapter 11 case of Tronox Inc. is not a final order, it cannot be appealed by 4,300 individuals who say they were injured from the company’s operation of a wood‐treatment plant in Pennsylvania, the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said April 20 (Avoca plaintiffs, et al. v. Kerr‐McGee Corp., et al., No. 16-343, 2nd Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 6949)....

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