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COPA - PCBs and Superfund in Bloomington, Indiana
PCB Contamination: Commonwealth of PA. v. U.S. Mineral Prods. Co. A Pennsylvania trial court judge has rejected Monsanto's bid to reduce a $45 million jury award to the commonwealth after ... place. Various state agencies filed suit against Monsanto Co. and other defendants in Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court in February 1996, seeking damages for the alleged PCB contamination. The jury found Monsanto' ...
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Workplace Noise
Commonwealth Court Examines Hazardous Noise for Workers' Compensation (May 27, 1999). The Legal Intelligencer reports two cases in which the Commonwealth Court has looked at the circumstances ... Post-Dispatch reports that a lawsuit was filed recently in Madison County (Missouri) Circuit Court against Granite City Steel Co. by 200 workers who say they have hearing loss ...
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Court Ruling on Administrative Fees
Pennsylvania Supreme Court was not even considered following the appeals in Commonwealth Court. Lycoming County Case In February 2005, a ruling in the Lycoming Court of Common Pleas declared ... The ruling for these northern counties was upheld by Commonwealth Court in October 2005. Lehigh County Case In May 2005, Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas judge John LaValle had found the ...
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VALLEY CREEK COALITION STORM WATER LEGAL UPDATE
Homebuilders Association of Chester and Delaware Counties filed a Petition for Review in Commonwealth Court asking the court to overturn both the statewide policy and the VCC settlement agreement. The ... and their engineers embraced the new practices. In July 2003, Commonwealth Court dismissed the Homebuilders’ lawsuit. The court held that the statewide storm water policy was not new law, ...
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UNDERSTANDING THE NEW ANTI
Commonwealth to enforce an environmental law or regulation, and is aimed at procuring favorable governmental action. Id. at §8302 (a). Here, citizens are protected when they file an action in state court ... lose, all is not lost. They get an immediate interlocutory appeal as of right to Commonwealth Court. Id. at §8303. Since a common pleas judge will know that his opinion will receive ...
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Help protect historic Appalachian Trail from development blight - PennEnvironment
Appalachian Trail are proposed in municipalities all along the trail. A recent Commonwealth Court ruling gave municipalities the choice of remaining un-zoned if they wished. The decision could ...
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Healthy Communities In the News - PennEnvironment
Commonwealth. Sadly, Montgomery County has more toxic sites being cleaned under the Hazardous Sites Cleanup ... the state are in jeopardy because landfill fees that funded them were struck down by Commonwealth Court and state legislators have not acted. more. . . Legislature needs to grant counties the authority ...
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COURT DECISIONS
COURT DECISIONS Court Decisions Following are selected court decisions that impact implementation of the Surface Mining Law. January 29, 2003, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Kentuckians for the Commonwealth ...
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EarthRights International - Next phase of Unocal trial set to begin in state court
California Superior Court, 600 Commonwealth Avenue in Los Angeles. The trial brings together two cases ... plaintiffs. Plaintiffs have already won the first round, when the Court rejected Unocal’s attempt to apply Burma and Bermuda law. ... In addition to the case in state court, the same plaintiffs are suing Unocal in federal court, under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA ...
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court letter
February 2001 Dear Sir: You have asked me to express an opinion about ... for their beliefs. In the nationalist struggles in India and elsewhere, many future heads of Commonwealth nations spent time in British prisons for their beliefs. The Civil Rights movement in the ...
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