[CPEO-BIF] "U.S. Supreme Court to hear CTS [Asheville, North Carolina] case"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. Supreme Court to hear CTS case
U.S. Supreme Court to hear pollution arguments

by Clarke Morrison
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
January 18, 2014

ASHEVILLE - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a lawsuit  
brought by Buncombe County property owners over extensive soil and  
groundwater contamination at the former CTS plant.

Without comment, the court agreed to consider an appeal by CTS Corp.  
asking that the suit be dismissed. Had the justices rejected the writ  
of certiorari, the lawsuit would have gone to trial in U.S. District  
Court in Asheville.

The U.S. Supreme Court grants and hears oral arguments in about 75-80  
cases a year. That's out of about 10,000 petitions received annually  
to review the decision of a lower court.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20140118/NEWS/301180025/U-S- 
Supreme-Court-hear-CTS-case

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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
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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