[CPEO-BIF] Judge backs Baltimore, Maryland casino

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vapor Intrusion
Contamination prompts a judge-angering court fight over Baltimore casino

By Van Smith
Baltimore City Paper (MD)
August 14, 2013

A federal judge in Baltimore on Aug. 9 angrily denied 10 Westport and  
Cherry Hill residents' request to halt construction of the long- 
awaited, 335,000-square-foot Horseshoe Casino off Russell Street near  
M&T Bank Stadium, saying their petition "woefully failed" to meet the  
"heavy burden" plaintiffs must meet before such an injunction can be  
granted.

The residents, U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett noted, "failed to  
even exercise their rights as citizens" to submit public comments on  
the casino's "voluntary cleanup plan" to address well-documented  
environmental contamination at the site, which is a state-designated  
"brownfield" slated for redevelopment. And, he noted, "none" of the  
plaintiffs "live in close proximity" to the construction site, while  
"only two live in the same ZIP code." Though the lawsuit describes  
the harm that allegedly would befall the plaintiffs due to their  
proximity to the casino project, their listed addresses actually  
reflect that they live in various neighborhoods around Baltimore.

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For the entire article, see
http://citypaper.com/news/vapor-intrusion-1.1535816#.UhKh-TV4EZY.email

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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