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Dow, Pharmacia, BNSF Cleared In Minn. Superfund Suit

Law360, New York (September 28, 2009) -- A judge has let Dow Chemical Corp., Pharmacia Corp. and Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. off the hook on a set of environmental and personal injury claims related to dioxin contamination at the St. Regis Co. Superfund site on an American Indian reservation in Cass Lake, Minn.

Judge Donovan W. Frank granted the three firms' motions for summary judgment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota on Thursday. A separate but related case in...

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