Law360, New York (November 03, 2008, 12:00 AM ET) -- A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court ruling and greenlighted a class action alleging that thousands of people in Bhopal, India, were seriously and fatally harmed by polluted drinking water caused by a Union Carbide Corp. pesticide plant.
On Monday, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned a 2006 summary judgment from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which had dismissed plaintiffs’ claims that Union Carbide was responsible for cancer and neurological...
2nd Circ. Pushes Indian Pesticide Action Forward
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