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Chemical industry trade association challenges proposed Prop. 65 listing for BPA

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2013

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief in a California state court against California EPA's

Only “known carcinogens” may be listed under Prop. 65, California court rules

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 16 2012

A California appeals court has refused to allow the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to identify styrene and vinyl acetate as carcinogens under the Safe Drinking Water Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Prop. 65), ruling that the agency failed to provide sufficient evidence that the chemicals are “known” to cause cancer. Styrene Info. & Research Ctr. v. OEHHA, No. C064301 (Cal. App. Ct. 103112

Medical monitoring claim rejected by federal court

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 9 2012

Readers know that medical monitoring claims are a focus of MassTortDefense

The Supreme Court - June 25, 2012

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 25 2012

The Supreme Court of the United States announced decisions in three cases this morning

Federal court dismisses lawsuit over potential damage to crops from transgenic seed

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 23 2012

A federal court in New York has dismissed a lawsuit filed by organic seed growers seeking an order prohibiting Monsanto Co. from suing them if their crops become contaminated by the company’s transgenic seed

Enterprise risk assessment: a closer look at environmental regulations and health care facilities

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 13 2012

Health care facilities are among the most heavily regulated facilities in the country

New lawsuits filed: “natural” orange juice, mislabeled butter, city vs. state in trans fat dispute, lack of FDA action on nanotechnology petition

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 13 2012

Putative class actions have been filed in New Jersey and California federal courts against Tropicana Products, Inc., alleging that the company misleads consumers by labeling and marketing its orange juice as “100 pure and natural,” when it actually “undergoes extensive processing which includes the addition of aromas and flavors.”

Court permits plaintiffs to evade CAFA mass action reach

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 16 2011

Readers know that one of the effects of the Class Action Fairness Act has been to encourage plaintiff counsel to get creative in ways to defeat federal jurisdiction and keep mass torts and class actions in state courts

Failure-to-warn claims against tuna co. not preempted, says federal court

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 14 2011

Granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss in part, a federal court in New York has allowed further proceedings on most of the claims filed by a man who alleged that consuming one to two cans of tuna daily for more than two years caused his mercury poisoning

Class certification denied in medical monitoring and property damage case

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 2 2011

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the denial of class certification in a case seeking medical monitoring and property damage against several chemical companies

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