Judge: Government’s Suit Over Cleanup Of Solvents Barred By Res Judicata

(October 1, 2018, 3:20 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts on Sept. 25 granted a company’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the government under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act for the cleanup of the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant (NWIRP) in Bedford, Mass., finding that the claims were barred by a 1989 lawsuit brought by the town over a leak of solvents at the facility (United States v. Raytheon Co., No. 17-11816-NMG, D. Mass., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 164929)....