Federal Judge Allows Detainees’ Pandemic Cleaner Poisoning Claims To Proceed

(July 20, 2023, 9:32 AM EDT) -- RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Putative class claims first filed in March by detainees who say they were poisoned by a cleaning solution the facility operator used multiple times an hour between February 2020 and April 2021 as a purported safety measure against COVID-19 “fall within the heartland of delayed discovery cases,” a federal judge in California ruled, denying a motion to partially dismiss the complaint based on the purported applicable statute of limitations....