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From: "larry@schnapflaw.com" <larry@schnapflaw.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 12:39:11 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: Re: [CPEO-BIF] Judge dismisses homeowners' lawsuit against Lockheed Martin in Moorestown, New Jersey
 
Without expert testimony to provide evidence that concentrations below screening levels could cause danage, there wasn't much of a case.
 
Moreover, plaintiffs purchased property knowing of contamination so measure of damages was not value of property in clean state but compared to plaintiff purchase price. 
 
 

On August 17, 2014 at 12:19 PM "Laurent C. Levy" <LLevy@gradientcorp.com> wrote:

And there was not much of a case in the first place. Barely an exceedance in screening levels.

http://www.cnsenvironmentallaw.com/2013/10/17/Lockheed.pdf

 

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From: Brownfields [mailto:brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org] On Behalf Of Larry Schnapf
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 6:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [CPEO-BIF] Judge dismisses homeowners' lawsuit against Lockheed Martin in Moorestown, New Jersey

 

Its called hiring good attorneys and aggressively defending lawsuit.

 

 

 

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From: Brownfields [mailto:brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank Vera
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 12:03 AM
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Judge dismisses homeowners' lawsuit against Lockheed Martin in Moorestown, New Jersey

 

When Lockheed is the defendant something appears to be wrong with the courts.

 

The same thing happened with the Lockheed / Redlands case.

 

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The Dole victories were likewise featured as cover stories in the California Lawyer ... Ms. Neuman recently obtained the dismissal with prejudice of all remaining ... In re Redlands Tort Litigation: Trial counsel for Lockheed Martin Corporation in ... The lawsuit was resolved to client's advantage with a successful strategy that ...

 

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From: Brownfields [mailto:brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org] On Behalf Of Lenny Siegel
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 7:32 PM
To: Brownfields Internet Forum
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Judge dismisses homeowners' lawsuit against Lockheed Martin in Moorestown, New Jersey

 

Lockheed Martin contamination lawsuit dismissed

 

By Todd McHale

Burlington County Times (NJ)

August 15, 2014

 

A federal judge has dismissed an environmental lawsuit filed against Lockheed Martin by neighboring property owners.

 

Chief Judge Jerome B. Simandle, of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, ruled that contamination levels on the neighbors’ properties did not pose a risk to their health or the environment.

 

"Plaintiffs have failed to carry their burden on the ‘imminent and substantial endangerment' element," Simandle stated in his opinion, handed down last week.

 

Residents of the Wexford housing development, Michael and Ashley Leese and Jay and Raquel Winkler, filed the lawsuit in federal court in Camden in 2011, alleging that hazardous chemicals released on Lockheed Martin's site on Borton Landing Road had migrated and contaminated adjacent residential properties.

 

 

...

 

For the entire article, see

http://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/news/local/lockheed-martin-

contamination-lawsuit-dismissed/article_65009b11-9649-51a0-98c0-

df9c83369f6b.html

 

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