April 19, 2022
A Vermont federal judge has awarded class counsel $6.6 million in attorney fees for their work securing a roughly $34 million settlement with Saint-Gobain to resolve residents' allegations Teflon manufacturing contaminated their private drinking water wells.
November 12, 2021
Saint-Gobain and Bennington, Vermont, residents have asked a federal court to sign off on a roughly $34 million settlement ending claims that the company contaminated their private drinking water wells with a hazardous chemical when manufacturing Teflon.
June 18, 2021
Saint-Gobain has moved to sharply limit the kind of testimony a former in-house counsel-turned-whistleblower may provide in a class action over alleged chemical contamination, telling a Vermont federal court that the testimony is subject to privilege concerns.
May 13, 2021
A Vermont federal judge said Thursday a former Saint-Gobain in-house attorney who alleges the company did not disclose information about its use of perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, can be deposed in a class action over alleged PFOA contamination by the company.
May 11, 2021
A Vermont federal judge said attorneys for a class of plaintiffs suing over perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, contamination should be paid the equivalent of a one-third contingency fee if Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. makes a direct settlement offer to property owners.
April 07, 2021
A Vermont federal judge told attorneys for Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. and a class of Vermont property owners to reduce the "personal friction between counsel" in a dispute over a potential direct settlement offer to resolve claims of perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, contamination.
March 24, 2021
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. wants to make a direct settlement offer to resolve claims from a class of Vermont property owners whose water was contaminated by chemical perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, according to court records.
September 10, 2018
A group of Vermont residents asked a federal court on Friday to disqualify Dechert LLP from representing Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. in a drinking water contamination suit, accusing the legal team of improperly soliciting and representing former Saint-Gobain employee witnesses and obstructing the deposition process.
February 27, 2017
Vermont residents asked a federal court on Friday to deny Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp.'s bid to throw out their putative class action alleging the company contaminated their private drinking water wells with a hazardous chemical, saying state law supported their property right claims.