July 09, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered defendant companies to keep providing bottled water to residents of Westminster, Massachusetts, maintaining the status quo while the court determines whether those companies have made the residents' tap water sufficiently safe from so-called forever chemicals.
November 18, 2024
A Massachusetts federal judge rejected on Monday requests by 3M Corp. and other defendants to add DuPont entities and over a dozen additional companies as cross-defendants in a proposed racketeering class action seeking to hold the companies liable for conspiring to contaminate local drinking water with so-called forever chemicals.
December 22, 2023
A federal court has affirmed most of a magistrate judge's finding that a putative class of Westminster, Massachusetts, residents who accused several companies of conspiring to contaminate their drinking water with so-called "forever chemicals" have made sufficient claims to move forward with their class action.
September 18, 2023
A magistrate judge in Massachusetts gave too much leeway in recommending residents' civil racketeering claims advance against a group of businesses accused of dumping contaminated waste that spiked a town's drinking water with so-called forever chemicals, the companies said.
September 05, 2023
A federal magistrate judge has recommended allowing civil racketeering claims to go forward against companies over the alleged contamination of a central Massachusetts town's drinking water with so-called forever chemicals, while concluding the corporate parents of one of the businesses should be cut loose from the case.
October 13, 2022
A packaging company and a paperboard business told a federal judge Thursday that they should be able to escape a suit brought by two Massachusetts couples over allegedly contaminated drinking water, arguing they cannot be sued for the actions of their separate subsidiary.
August 03, 2022
Two Massachusetts couples have filed a proposed class action accusing several companies linked to a composting facility of contaminating the town's drinking water with so-called forever chemicals, calling them responsible for an "environmental disaster."